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CVE-2018-5188

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 60, Firefox ESR 60, and Firefox ESR 52.8.

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
DebianDebian Linux
Versions 8.0, 9.0
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04
MozillaFirefox
before 61.0
from 53.0 before 60.1.0
MozillaFirefox Esr
before 52.9
MozillaThunderbird
before 52.9
RedhatEnterprise Linux Desktop
Versions 6.0, 7.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server
Versions 6.0, 7.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server Aus
Version 7.6
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server Eus
Versions 7.5, 7.6
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server Tus
Version 7.6
RedhatEnterprise Linux Workstation
Versions 6.0, 7.0

Weakness classification

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