CVE-2018-5090

Description

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 57. 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 Firefox < 58.

Affected (4)

Products: Mozilla: Firefox · Canonical: Ubuntu Linux

1 product

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Mozilla Firefox	Up to 57.0.4

Configuration B

3 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Canonical Ubuntu Linux	Version 14.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux	Version 16.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux	Version 17.10

Related CWEs

CWE-119

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

References (10)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102786

Source: security@mozilla.org

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040270

Source: security@mozilla.org

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1413857%2C1412653%2C1418966%2C1427126%2C1412942%2C1401459%2C1364399%2C1382851%2C1423770%2C1401420%2C1281965%2C1389561%2C1409179%2C1416879%2C1421786%2C1426449%2C1416799%2C1400912%2C1415158%2C1415748%2C1415788%2C1371891%2C1415770%2C1416519%2C1413143%2C1418841%2C1384544%2C1410140%2C1411631%2C1412313%2C1412641%2C1412645%2C1412646%2C1412648%2C1261175

Source: security@mozilla.org

Issue TrackingPermissions Required

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3544-1/

Source: security@mozilla.org

Third Party Advisory

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-02/

Source: security@mozilla.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102786