critical
CVE-2018-5187
Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 60 and Firefox ESR 60.1
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 and Firefox ESR 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 Thunderbird < 60, Firefox ESR < 60.1, and Firefox < 61.
Affected packages and fixed versions
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| debian 11 | thunderbird | 1:60.0-1 |
| debian 12 | thunderbird | 1:60.0-1 |
| debian 13 | thunderbird | 1:60.0-1 |
| debian 14 | thunderbird | 1:60.0-1 |
| debian 8 | thunderbird | 1:60.3.0-1~deb8u1 |
| debian 9 | thunderbird | 1:60.0-3~deb9u1 |
| echo | thunderbird | 1:60.0-1 |
| ubuntu 14.04 | firefox | 61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.2 |
| ubuntu 16.04 | firefox | 61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 |
| ubuntu 17.10 | firefox | 61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.17.10.1 |
| ubuntu 18.04 | firefox | 61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 |
| ubuntu 18.10 | firefox | 61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 |
Show all 23 entries from 23 sources
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| debian 11 | thunderbird | 1:60.0-1 |
| debian 12 | thunderbird | 1:60.0-1 |
| debian 13 | thunderbird | 1:60.0-1 |
| debian 14 | thunderbird | 1:60.0-1 |
| debian 8 | thunderbird | 1:60.3.0-1~deb8u1 |
| debian 9 | thunderbird | 1:60.0-3~deb9u1 |
| echo | thunderbird | 1:60.0-1 |
| ubuntu 14.04 | firefox | 61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.2 |
| ubuntu 16.04 | firefox | 61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 |
| ubuntu 17.10 | firefox | 61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.17.10.1 |
| ubuntu 18.04 | firefox | 61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 |
| ubuntu 18.10 | firefox | 61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 |
| ubuntu 19.04 | firefox | 61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 |
| ubuntu 19.10 | firefox | 61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 |
| ubuntu 20.04 | firefox | 61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 |
| ubuntu 20.10 | firefox | 61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 |
| ubuntu 21.04 | firefox | 61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 |
| ubuntu 21.10 | firefox | 61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 |
| ubuntu 22.04 | firefox | 61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 |
| ubuntu 22.10 | firefox | 61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 |
| ubuntu 23.04 | firefox | 61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 |
| ubuntu 23.10 | firefox | 61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 |
| ubuntu 24.04 | firefox | 61.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104556
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5187
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1461324%2C1414829%2C1395246%2C1467938%2C1461619%2C1425930%2C1438556%2C1454285%2C1459568%2C1463884
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00011.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5187
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-01
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-13
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3705-1
All 16 references
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3705-1/
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5187
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4295
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-15/#CVE-2018-5187
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-16/#CVE-2018-5187
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-15/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-16/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-19/