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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-5127: Buffer overflow manipulating SVG animatedPathSegList

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-5127: Buffer overflow manipulating SVG animatedPathSegList

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/21/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/05/2018
Modified
06/17/2022

Description

A buffer overflow can occur when manipulating the SVG "animatedPathSegList" through script. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.7, Firefox ESR < 52.7, and Firefox < 59.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-firefox-esr

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