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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-5145: firefox-esr Multiple vulnerabilities

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-5145: firefox-esr Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/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

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox ESR 52.6. 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 Firefox ESR < 52.7 and Thunderbird < 52.7.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-firefox-esr

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