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
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-5186
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1590698
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Reported: 2018-06-26 01:53 UTC by Doran Moppert
Modified: 2021-02-26 03:33 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-06-27 00:12:50 UTC
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Description Doran Moppert 2018-06-26 01:53:34 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/mfsa2018-16/#CVE-2018-5186
Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2018-06-26 01:53:38 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

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