Bug 1595038 – CVE-2018-5186 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 61

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Bug 1595038 - (CVE-2018-5186) CVE-2018-5186 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 61

Summary:	CVE-2018-5186 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 61

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2018-5186

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

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Blocks:	1590698
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Reported:	2018-06-25 21:53 EDT by Doran Moppert
Modified:	2018-06-26 20:59 EDT (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Description Doran Moppert 2018-06-25 21:53:34 EDT

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/mfsa2018-16/#CVE-2018-5186

Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2018-06-25 21:53:38 EDT

Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Christian Holler, Jason Kratzer, Jon Coppeard, Randell Jesup, Ronald Crane, Boris Zbarsky

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