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CVE-2018-5148

firefox: Use-after-free in compositor potentially allows code execution

Published Modified CWE 416
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (high), Oracle (high), Ubuntu (medium).

Description

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 11firefox-esr52.7.3esr-1
debian 12firefox-esr52.7.3esr-1
debian 13firefox-esr52.7.3esr-1
debian 14firefox-esr52.7.3esr-1
debian 7firefox-esr52.7.3esr-1~deb7u1
debian 8firefox-esr52.7.3esr-1~deb8u1
debian 9firefox-esr52.7.3esr-1~deb9u1
echofirefox-esr52.7.3esr-1
Oracle Linux 6firefox52.7.3-1.0.1.el6_9
Oracle Linux 7firefox52.7.3-1.0.1.el7_5
ubuntu 14.04firefox59.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
ubuntu 16.04firefox59.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
Show all 14 entries from 14 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
debian 11firefox-esr52.7.3esr-1
debian 12firefox-esr52.7.3esr-1
debian 13firefox-esr52.7.3esr-1
debian 14firefox-esr52.7.3esr-1
debian 7firefox-esr52.7.3esr-1~deb7u1
debian 8firefox-esr52.7.3esr-1~deb8u1
debian 9firefox-esr52.7.3esr-1~deb9u1
echofirefox-esr52.7.3esr-1
Oracle Linux 6firefox52.7.3-1.0.1.el6_9
Oracle Linux 7firefox52.7.3-1.0.1.el7_5
ubuntu 14.04firefox59.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
ubuntu 16.04firefox59.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
ubuntu 17.10firefox59.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
ubuntu 18.04firefox59.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1

References

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