Memory corruption in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2018-5159

 

Memory corruption in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2018-5159

Published: May 10, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU12530
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5159
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Mozilla
Affected software:
Mozilla Firefox

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to integer overflow in the Skia library while 32-bit integer use in an array without integer overflow checks. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability result may result in system compromise.

How to mitigate CVE-2018-5159

Update to version 60.0.

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