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CVE-2018-5148

Publication date 27 March 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in the compositor during certain graphics operations when a raw pointer is used instead of a reference counted one. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.7.3 and Firefox < 59.0.2.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
firefox 18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 59.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1
17.10 artful
Fixed 59.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 59.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 59.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
firefox-esr 18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
17.10 artful Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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