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Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2018-18493)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 28, 2019
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A buffer overflow can occur in the Skia library use by Firefox < 64.0, during buffer offset calculations with hardware accelerated canvas 2D actions due to the use of 32-bit calculations instead of 64-bit.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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