critical
CVE-2018-5183
Mozilla: Backport critical security fixes in Skia
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, Red Hat, Amazon. Rated lower by Oracle (high), Ubuntu (medium).
Description
Mozilla developers backported selected changes in the Skia library. These changes correct memory corruption issues including invalid buffer reads and writes during graphic operations. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird ESR < 52.8, Thunderbird < 52.8, and Firefox ESR < 52.8.
Affected packages and fixed versions
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| amazon linux 2 | thunderbird, thunderbird-debuginfo | 52.8.0-1.amzn2 |
| debian 11 | firefox-esr, thunderbird | 52.8.0esr-1 and 1 more |
| debian 12 | firefox-esr, thunderbird | 52.8.0esr-1 and 1 more |
| debian 13 | firefox-esr, thunderbird | 52.8.0esr-1 and 1 more |
| debian 14 | firefox-esr, thunderbird | 52.8.0esr-1 and 1 more |
| debian 7 | firefox-esr, thunderbird | 52.8.0esr-1~deb7u1 and 1 more |
| debian 8 | firefox-esr, thunderbird | 52.8.0esr-1~deb8u1 and 1 more |
| debian 9 | firefox-esr, thunderbird | 52.8.0esr-1~deb9u1 and 1 more |
| echo | firefox-esr, thunderbird | 52.8.0esr-1 and 1 more |
| Oracle Linux 6 | firefox, thunderbird | 52.8.0-1.0.1.el6_9 and 1 more |
| Oracle Linux 7 | firefox, thunderbird | 52.8.0-1.0.1.el7_5 |
| ubuntu 14.04 | thunderbird | 1:52.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 |
Show all 26 entries from 15 sources
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| amazon linux 2 | thunderbird | 52.8.0-1.amzn2 |
| amazon linux 2 | thunderbird-debuginfo | 52.8.0-1.amzn2 |
| debian 11 | firefox-esr | 52.8.0esr-1 |
| debian 11 | thunderbird | 1:52.8.0-1 |
| debian 12 | firefox-esr | 52.8.0esr-1 |
| debian 12 | thunderbird | 1:52.8.0-1 |
| debian 13 | firefox-esr | 52.8.0esr-1 |
| debian 13 | thunderbird | 1:52.8.0-1 |
| debian 14 | firefox-esr | 52.8.0esr-1 |
| debian 14 | thunderbird | 1:52.8.0-1 |
| debian 7 | firefox-esr | 52.8.0esr-1~deb7u1 |
| debian 7 | thunderbird | 1:52.8.0-1~deb7u1 |
| debian 8 | firefox-esr | 52.8.0esr-1~deb8u1 |
| debian 8 | thunderbird | 1:52.8.0-1~deb8u1 |
| debian 9 | firefox-esr | 52.8.0esr-1~deb9u1 |
| debian 9 | thunderbird | 1:52.8.0-1~deb9u1 |
| echo | firefox-esr | 52.8.0esr-1 |
| echo | thunderbird | 1:52.8.0-1 |
| Oracle Linux 6 | firefox | 52.8.0-1.0.1.el6_9 |
| Oracle Linux 6 | thunderbird | 52.8.0-2.0.1.el6_9 |
| Oracle Linux 7 | firefox | 52.8.0-1.0.1.el7_5 |
| Oracle Linux 7 | thunderbird | 52.8.0-1.0.1.el7_5 |
| ubuntu 14.04 | thunderbird | 1:52.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 |
| ubuntu 16.04 | thunderbird | 1:52.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 |
| ubuntu 17.10 | thunderbird | 1:52.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.17.10.1 |
| ubuntu 18.04 | thunderbird | 1:52.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104138
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040898
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1414
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1415
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1725
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1726
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5183
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1454692
All 24 references
- https://linux.oracle.com/cve/CVE-2018-5183.html
- https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2018-1726.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00007.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00013.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5183
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-01
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-13
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3660-1
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3660-1/
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5183
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4199
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4209
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-12/#CVE-2018-5183
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-13/#CVE-2018-5150
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-12/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-13/