CVE-2018-5188 Memory corruption in Firefox

What is CVE-2018-5188?

CVE-2018-5188 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 18 Oct 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 60, Firefox ESR 60, and Firefox ESR 52.8. 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 < 60, Thunderbird < 52.9, Firefox ESR < 60.1, Firefox ESR < 52.9, and Firefox < 61.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-5188?

It affects 11 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox Esr, Mozilla Thunderbird, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop and 5 more.

How do I fix CVE-2018-5188?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2018-5188 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-5188 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-5188, GHSA-r3cm-g44g-3hg8, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5188, USN-3749-1.