CVE-2018-5148

Publication date 27 March 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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

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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)