CVE-2018-5178
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2018-06-11 | |
| Impact: | None | What is this? |
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.
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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score: | 6.8 |
| Vector String: | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Version: | 2.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Network |
| Attack Complexity: | Medium |
| Authentication: | None |
| 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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