vulnerability

Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2018-5187)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Oct 18, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Several memory safety bugs have been found in Firefox before 61.0 and Thunderbird before 60.0. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and 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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