CVE-2018-5187
Critical
CVE-2018-5187
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.
Exploit probability
3.0%
Published
October 18, 2018
Required by
Not available
Last source change
April 16, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2018-5187
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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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104556
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1461324%2C1414829%2C1395246%2C1467938%2C1461619%2C1425930%2C1438556%2C1454285%2C1459568%2C1463884
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00011.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-01
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-13
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3705-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4295
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-15/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-16/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-19/