CVE-2018-18493

critical
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
9.5

Description

A buffer overflow can occur in the Skia library during buffer offset calculations with hardware accelerated canvas 2D actions due to the use of 32-bit calculations instead of 64-bit. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60.4, Firefox ESR < 60.4, and Firefox < 64.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-18493

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18493.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201812-9

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed64.0-1
suse slesaffected
debian debiansidfixed64.0-1
debian debianbookwormfixed60.4.0esr-1
debian debianbullseyefixed60.4.0esr-1
debian debianforkyfixed60.4.0esr-1
debian debiantrixiefixed60.4.0esr-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.