Bug 1625524 (CVE-2018-12375)

Summary: CVE-2018-12375 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 62
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Doran Moppert <dmoppert>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Bug Depends On: 1625533, 1625535    
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Description Doran Moppert 2018-09-05 07:14:17 UTC
Mozilla developers and community members reported 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.


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https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-20/#CVE-2018-12375

Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2018-09-05 07:14:21 UTC
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Christian Holler, Jesse Ruderman, Sebastian Hengst, Nicolas Grunbaum, Gary Kwong