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MFSA2018-12 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 52.8 (CVE-2018-5178)

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MFSA2018-12 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 52.8 (CVE-2018-5178)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/09/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/10/2018
Modified
08/06/2018

Description

A buffer overflow was found during UTF8 to Unicode string conversion within JavaScript with extremely large amounts of data. This vulnerability requires the use of a malicious or vulnerable legacy extension in order to occur. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird ESR < 52.8, Thunderbird < 52.8, and Firefox ESR < 52.8.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-52_8

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