Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 18, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-5187
CVE-2018-5187
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.
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Affected products
18unspecified+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <60.0
- (no CPE)range: <60
unspecified+ 3 more
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <60.1.0
- (no CPE)range: <61
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*+ 3 more
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
- osv-coords5 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/MozillaThunderbird&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/MozillaThunderbird&distro=SUSE%20Package%20Hub%2012pkg:rpm/opensuse/firefox-esr&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/MozillaThunderbird&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Workstation%20Extension%2015pkg:rpm/opensuse/MozillaFirefox&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 91.1.1-1.1+ 4 more
- (no CPE)range: < 91.1.1-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 60.3.0-74.2
- (no CPE)range: < 128.5.1-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 60.2.1-3.13.1
- (no CPE)range: < 92.0-1.2
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
10- www.securityfocus.com/bid/104556nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cginvdIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00011.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-01nvdThird Party Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-13nvdThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/3705-1/nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4295nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-15/nvdVendor Advisory
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-16/nvdVendor Advisory
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-19/nvdVendor Advisory
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