CVE-2018-5188 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Mozilla Firefox
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
OSV4.3
EPSS
3.0%
top 13.34%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 18
Latest updateMay 14
Description
Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 60, Firefox ESR 60, and Firefox ESR 52.8. 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, Thunderbird < 52.9, Firefox ESR < 60.1, Firefox ESR < 52.9, 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 Packages11 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04, Enterprise Linux 7.6, 7.5
🔴Vulnerability Details
5GHSA▶
GHSA-r3cm-g44g-3hg8: Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 60, Firefox ESR 60, and Firefox ESR 52↗2022-05-14
CVEList▶
CVE-2018-5188: Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 60, Firefox ESR 60, and Firefox ESR 52↗2018-10-18
OSV▶
CVE-2018-5188: Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 60, Firefox ESR 60, and Firefox ESR 52↗2018-10-18
📋Vendor Advisories
5Red Hat
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Debian▶
CVE-2018-5188: firefox - Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 60, Firefox ESR 60, and Firefox ESR 52.8. ...↗2018
💬Community
1Bugzilla▶
CVE-2018-5188 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 61, Firefox ESR 60.1, and Firefox ESR 52.9↗2018-06-26