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CVE-2018-12388 (GCVE-0-2018-12388)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-02-28 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 08:30
VLAI
Summary
Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 62. 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 Firefox < 63.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 63
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105721 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3801-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041944 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 63 (custom)
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Date Public
2019-02-28 00:00
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