| Name | CVE-2018-18501 |
| Description | Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 64 and Firefox ESR 60.4. 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 < 60.5, Firefox ESR < 60.5, and Firefox < 65. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1648-1, DLA-1678-1, DSA-4376-1, DSA-4392-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| firefox (PTS) | sid | 138.0.1-1 | fixed |
| firefox-esr (PTS) | bullseye | 115.14.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 128.9.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 128.8.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security) | 128.10.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed | |
| trixie | 128.9.0esr-2 | fixed | |
| sid | 128.10.0esr-1 | fixed | |
| thunderbird (PTS) | bullseye | 1:115.12.0-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:128.10.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 1:128.8.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security) | 1:128.10.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed | |
| trixie | 1:128.9.0esr-1 | fixed | |
| sid | 1:128.10.0esr-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| firefox | source | (unstable) | 65.0-1 | |||
| firefox-esr | source | jessie | 60.5.0esr-1~deb8u1 | DLA-1648-1 | ||
| firefox-esr | source | stretch | 60.5.0esr-1~deb9u1 | DSA-4376-1 | ||
| firefox-esr | source | (unstable) | 60.5.0esr-1 | |||
| thunderbird | source | jessie | 1:60.5.1-1~deb8u1 | DLA-1678-1 | ||
| thunderbird | source | stretch | 1:60.5.1-1~deb9u1 | DSA-4392-1 | ||
| thunderbird | source | (unstable) | 1:60.5.0-1 |
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-01/#CVE-2018-18501
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-02/#CVE-2018-18501
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-03/#CVE-2018-18501