CVE-2018-5156

NameCVE-2018-5156
DescriptionA vulnerability can occur when capturing a media stream when the media source type is changed as the capture is occurring. This can result in stream data being cast to the wrong type causing a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60, Firefox ESR < 60.1, Firefox ESR < 52.9, and Firefox < 61.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-1406-1, DLA-1575-1, DSA-4235-1, DSA-4295-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
firefox (PTS)sid131.0.2-2fixed
firefox-esr (PTS)bullseye115.14.0esr-1~deb11u1fixed
bullseye (security)128.3.1esr-1~deb11u1fixed
bookworm115.14.0esr-1~deb12u1fixed
bookworm (security)128.3.1esr-1~deb12u1fixed
trixie128.3.0esr-2fixed
sid128.3.1esr-2fixed
thunderbird (PTS)bullseye1:115.12.0-1~deb11u1fixed
bullseye (security)1:115.16.0esr-1~deb11u1fixed
bookworm1:115.12.0-1~deb12u1fixed
bookworm (security)1:115.16.0esr-1~deb12u1fixed
trixie1:128.2.0esr-1fixed
sid1:128.3.0esr-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
firefoxsource(unstable)61.0-1
firefox-esrsourcejessie52.9.0esr-1~deb8u1DLA-1406-1
firefox-esrsourcestretch52.9.0esr-1~deb9u1DSA-4235-1
firefox-esrsource(unstable)52.9.0esr-1
thunderbirdsourcejessie1:60.3.0-1~deb8u1DLA-1575-1
thunderbirdsourcestretch1:60.0-3~deb9u1DSA-4295-1
thunderbirdsource(unstable)1:60.0-1

Notes

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-15/#CVE-2018-5156
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-17/#CVE-2018-5156
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-19/#CVE-2018-5156

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