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Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2018-5125)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 11, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Various memory safety bugs have been found in Thunderbird < 52.7.0 and Firefox < 59.0, some of them presenting evidence of memory corruption. Mozilla presumes that with enough effort some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

References

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