CVE-2018-5125
critical
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
9.5
Description
Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 58 and Firefox ESR 52.6. 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 Thunderbird < 52.7, Firefox ESR < 52.7, and Firefox < 59.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-5125
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5125.html
Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201803-22
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 52.7.0-1 | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | sid | fixed | 59.0-1 |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 52.7.0esr-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 52.7.0esr-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 52.7.0esr-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 52.7.0esr-1 |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.