Vulnerabilities / CVE-2018-5186

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CVE-2018-5186

Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 61

Published Modified CWE 119
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. Rated lower by Ubuntu (medium).

Description

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 60. 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 Firefox < 61.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
ubuntu 14.04firefox61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
ubuntu 16.04firefox61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
ubuntu 17.10firefox61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
ubuntu 18.04firefox61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 18.10firefox61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 19.04firefox61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 19.10firefox61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 20.04firefox61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 20.10firefox61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 21.04firefox61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 21.10firefox61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 22.04firefox61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
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SourcePackageFixed in
ubuntu 14.04firefox61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
ubuntu 16.04firefox61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
ubuntu 17.10firefox61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
ubuntu 18.04firefox61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 18.10firefox61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 19.04firefox61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 19.10firefox61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 20.04firefox61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 20.10firefox61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 21.04firefox61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 21.10firefox61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 22.04firefox61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 22.10firefox61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 23.04firefox61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 23.10firefox61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 24.04firefox61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

References

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