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CVE-2018-5178

A buffer overflow was found during UTF8 to Unicode string conversion within JavaScript with extremely large amounts of data.

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 52.8
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

A buffer overflow was found during UTF8 to Unicode string conversion within 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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Mozilla Thunderbird ESR

    fixed in 52.8

  • Mozilla Thunderbird

    fixed in 52.8

  • Mozilla Firefox ESR

    fixed in 52.8

References 16

access.redhat.com

security.gentoo.org

mozilla.org

usn.ubuntu.com

securitytracker.com

debian.org

lists.debian.org

securityfocus.com

bugzilla.mozilla.org