vulnerability
Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2018-12371)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Jul 9, 2020 | Jul 11, 2025 | Nov 27, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 9, 2020
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025
Description
An integer overflow vulnerability has been found in the Skia library shipped with Firefox before 61.0 and Thunderbird before 60.0, when allocating memory for edge builders on some systems with at least 16 GB of RAM. This results in the use of uninitialized memory, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash.
Solution
arch-linux-upgrade-latest
References
- CVE-2018-12371
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2018-12371
- URL-https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1465686
- URL-https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201806-14
- URL-https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201808-8
- URL-https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-15
- URL-https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-19/
- URL-https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-15/
- URL-https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-16/
- URL-https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-19/
- CWE-190
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