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...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-5178
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1573377 1573378 1573379 1573380 1578628 1578629 1578630 1578631 1578632 1580262
Blocks: 1573375
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-05-09 07:16 UTC by Doran Moppert
Modified: 2021-02-26 02:54 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:22:21 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:1414 0 None None None 2018-05-14 14:40:07 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:1415 0 None None None 2018-05-14 15:14:23 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:1725 0 None None None 2018-05-24 19:26:49 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:1726 0 None None None 2018-05-24 19:56:24 UTC

Description Doran Moppert 2018-05-09 07:16:21 UTC 
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.  



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https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-12/#CVE-2018-5178
Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2018-05-09 07:16:26 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Root Object
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2018-05-14 14:40:01 UTC 
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 15:14:18 UTC 
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 19:26:44 UTC 
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 19:56:20 UTC 
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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