CVE-2018-18501

firefox: Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 64 and Firefox ESR 60.4

CVE-2018-18501 is fixed in 12 products on 1 platform, first by firefox 65.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, released January 29, 2019. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.

Routine
CVSS
n/a
Medium
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0337
88th percentile

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 64 and Firefox ESR 60.4. 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 Thunderbird < 60.5, Firefox ESR < 60.5, and Firefox < 65.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
firefox · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 65.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 firefox 65.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jan 29, 2019
firefox-globalmenu · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 65.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 firefox-globalmenu 65.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jan 29, 2019
firefox-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 65.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 firefox-mozsymbols 65.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jan 29, 2019
firefox-testsuite · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 65.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 firefox-testsuite 65.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jan 29, 2019
thunderbird · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:60.5.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 thunderbird 1:60.5.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Feb 13, 2019
thunderbird-globalmenu · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:60.5.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 thunderbird-globalmenu 1:60.5.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Feb 13, 2019
thunderbird-gnome-support · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:60.5.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 thunderbird-gnome-support 1:60.5.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Feb 13, 2019
thunderbird-mozsymbols · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:60.5.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 thunderbird-mozsymbols 1:60.5.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Feb 13, 2019
thunderbird-testsuite · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:60.5.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 thunderbird-testsuite 1:60.5.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Feb 13, 2019
xul-ext-calendar-timezones · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:60.5.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 xul-ext-calendar-timezones 1:60.5.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Feb 13, 2019
xul-ext-gdata-provider · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:60.5.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 xul-ext-gdata-provider 1:60.5.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Feb 13, 2019
xul-ext-lightning · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1:60.5.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 xul-ext-lightning 1:60.5.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Feb 13, 2019