CVE-2018-5160

critical

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

9.5

Description

WebRTC can use a "WrappedI420Buffer" pixel buffer but the owning image object can be freed while it is still in use. This can result in the WebRTC encoder using uninitialized memory, leading to a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 60.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-5160

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201805-10

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		fixed	`60.0-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`60.0-1`

References

https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201805-10
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-5160

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