Bug 1540431 (CVE-2018-5124) - CVE-2018-5124 firefox: Unsanitized output in browser UI can lead to arbitrary code execution
Summary: CVE-2018-5124 firefox: Unsanitized output in browser UI can lead to arbitrary...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-5124
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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Depends On: 1540308
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-01-31 04:08 UTC by Sam Fowler
Modified: 2022-03-13 14:40 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: firefox 58.0.1
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:38:55 UTC
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Description Sam Fowler 2018-01-31 04:08:17 UTC 
Mozilla Firefox before version 58.0.1 does not properly sanitize HTML fragments for chrome-privileged documents. An attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code.

This issue did not affect Firefox for Android or Firefox 52 ESR.

Upstream Advisory:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-05/

Upstream Issue:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1432966
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