CVE-2018-5156
critical
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
9.5
Description
A vulnerability can occur when capturing a media stream when the media source type is changed as the capture is occurring. This can result in stream data being cast to the wrong type causing a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60, Firefox ESR < 60.1, Firefox ESR < 52.9, and Firefox < 61.
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-2018-5156
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5156.html
Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201808-8
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 60.0-1 | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | sid | fixed | 61.0-1 |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 52.9.0esr-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 52.9.0esr-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 52.9.0esr-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 52.9.0esr-1 |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.