Memory corruption in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2018-5188

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Memory corruption in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2018-5188

Published: June 27, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU13495
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5188
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

The vulnerability exists due to boundary error when handling malicious input. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


Affected software

Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
Gentoo Linux
Arch Linux
Debian Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM
SUSE Linux
Slackware Linux
Opensuse
openSUSE Leap
Mozilla Thunderbird

How to mitigate CVE-2018-5188

Update to version 61.0.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 61.0
Mozilla Thunderbird - update to 60.0

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