CVE-2018-5187 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-120 — Classic Buffer Overflow10 documents7 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
OSV4.3
EPSS
2.3%
top 15.13%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
7
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Firefox ESRMozilla Thunderbird+4 more
Timeline
PublishedOct 18
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 60 and Firefox ESR 60. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60, Firefox ESR < 60.1, and Firefox < 61.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages9 packages

▶debiandebian/firefox< firefox 61.0-1 (sid)
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 61
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 60.1.0+1
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified — 60.1
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+5

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04

🔴Vulnerability Details

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GHSA
GHSA-3w2h-f87x-m6vp: Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 60 and Firefox ESR 60↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2018-5187: Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 60 and Firefox ESR 60↗2018-10-18
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OSV
firefox regressions↗2018-07-10
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2018-07-05
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Ubuntu
Firefox regressions↗2018-07-10
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2018-07-05
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 60 and Firefox ESR 60.1↗2018-06-26
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Debian
CVE-2018-5187: firefox - Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 60 and Firefox ESR 60. Some of these bugs ...↗2018
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-5187 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 60 and Firefox ESR 60.1↗2018-06-26
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CVE-2018-5187 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability | cvebase