Bug 1576278 – CVE-2018-5178 Mozilla: Buffer overflow during UTF-8 to Unicode string conversion through legacy extension

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Bug 1576278 - (CVE-2018-5178) CVE-2018-5178 Mozilla: Buffer overflow during UTF-8 to Unicode string conversion through legacy extension

Summary:	CVE-2018-5178 Mozilla: Buffer overflow during UTF-8 to Unicode string convers...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2018-5178

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Depends On:	1573377 1573378 1573379 1573380 1578628 1578629 1578630 1578631 1578632 1580262
Blocks:	1573375
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Reported:	2018-05-09 03:16 EDT by Doran Moppert
Modified:	2018-05-24 15:56 EDT (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:1414	None	None	None	2018-05-14 10:40 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:1415	None	None	None	2018-05-14 11:14 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:1725	None	None	None	2018-05-24 15:26 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:1726	None	None	None	2018-05-24 15:56 EDT

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Description Doran Moppert 2018-05-09 03:16:21 EDT

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.  



External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-12/#CVE-2018-5178

Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2018-05-09 03:16:26 EDT

Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Root Object

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2018-05-14 10:40:01 EDT

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 11:14:18 EDT

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 15:26:44 EDT

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 15:56:20 EDT

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

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