CVE-2018-18501

CVE Details

Release Date:	2019-02-05
Impact:	Critical	What is this?

Description

ozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 64 and Firefox ESR 60.4. 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 < 60.5, Firefox ESR < 60.5, and Firefox < 65.

See more information about CVE-2018-18501 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v3 metrics

Base Score:	9.8
Vector String:	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Version:	3.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Low
Privileges Required:	None
User Interaction:	None
Scope:	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact:	High
Integrity Impact:	High
Availability Impact:	High

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 6 (firefox)	ELSA-2019-0218	2019-01-30
Oracle Linux version 6 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2019-0269	2019-02-04
Oracle Linux version 7 (firefox)	ELSA-2019-0219	2019-01-31
Oracle Linux version 7 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2019-0270	2019-02-04