Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 59, Firefox ESR 52.7, and Thunderbird 52.7. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory…

Description

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 59, Firefox ESR 52.7, and Thunderbird 52.7. 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. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.8, Thunderbird ESR < 52.8, Firefox < 60, and Firefox ESR < 52.8.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.1% · top 12% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.

Weakness

• Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 60, Firefox ESR 52.8, and Thunderbird 52.8
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Mozilla · Thunderbird

  • affected unspecified – < 52.8

• Mozilla · Thunderbird ESR

  • affected unspecified – < 52.8

• Mozilla · Firefox

  • affected unspecified – < 60

• Mozilla · Firefox ESR

  • affected unspecified – < 52.8

References (19)

• RHSA-2018:1415 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• GLSA-201810-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• RHSA-2018:1726 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2018:1414 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• GLSA-201811-13 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-13/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-11/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-3660-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• 1040896 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• DSA-4199 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• USN-3645-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• [debian-lts-announce] 20180525 [SECURITY] [DLA 1382-1] thunderbird security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [debian-lts-announce] 20180511 [SECURITY] [DLA 1376-1] firefox-esr security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• RHSA-2018:1725 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1388020%2C1433609%2C1409440%2C1448705%2C1451376%2C1452202%2C1444668%2C1393367%2C1411415%2C1426129 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-3688-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• DSA-4209 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-12/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 104136 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 05:26 UTC.