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CVE-2018-5178 Detail

Description

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.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104138 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040898 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1414 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1415 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1725 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1726 Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1443891 Issue Tracking  Permissions Required  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00007.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00013.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-01 Third Party Advisory 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-13 Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3660-1/ Third Party Advisory 
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4199 Third Party Advisory 
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4209 Third Party Advisory 
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-12/ Vendor Advisory 
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-13/ Vendor Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-5178
NVD Published Date:
06/11/2018
NVD Last Modified:
03/11/2019
Source:
Mozilla Corporation