Buffer overflow - CVE-2018-5177
Published: May 9, 2018 / Updated: May 10, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU12567
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5177
CWE-ID: CWE-120
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to boundary error in XSLT during number formatting. A remote unauthenticated attacker can allocate negative buffer size, trigger memory corruption and cause the service to crash.
Affected software
Arch Linux
Ubuntu
firefox (Ubuntu package)
Ubuntu
firefox (Ubuntu package)
How to mitigate CVE-2018-5177
Update to version 60.0.
firefox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 60.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, 60.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, 60.0+build2-0ubuntu0.17.10.1, 60.0+build2-0ubuntu1