CVE-2018-5178

CVE Details

Release Date:

2018-06-11

Description

A buffer overflow was found during UTF8 to Unicode string conversionwithin JavaScript with extremely large amounts of data. This vulnerability requires the use of a malicious or vulnerable legacy extension in order to occur. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird ESR < 52.8, Thunderbird < 52.8, and Firefox ESR < 52.8.

See more information about CVE-2018-5178 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	6.8	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial	Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 6 (firefox)	ELSA-2018-1414	2018-05-14
Oracle Linux version 6 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2018-1726	2018-05-24
Oracle Linux version 7 (firefox)	ELSA-2018-1415	2018-05-14
Oracle Linux version 7 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2018-1725	2018-05-24

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