Bug 1576278 (CVE-2018-5178)

Summary: CVE-2018-5178 Mozilla: Buffer overflow during UTF-8 to Unicode string conversion through legacy extension
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Doran Moppert <dmoppert>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Bug Depends On: 1573377, 1573378, 1573379, 1573380, 1578628, 1578629, 1578630, 1578631, 1578632, 1580262    
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Description Doran Moppert 2018-05-09 07:16:21 UTC 
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.  



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https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-12/#CVE-2018-5178
Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2018-05-09 07:16:26 UTC 
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Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Root Object
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2018-05-14 14:40:01 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2018:1414 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1414
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2018-05-14 15:14:18 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:1415 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1415
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2018-05-24 19:26:44 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:1725 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1725
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2018-05-24 19:56:20 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2018:1726 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1726