vulnerability

MFSA2018-15 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 61 (CVE-2018-12363)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 26, 2018
Added
Jun 27, 2018
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when script uses mutation events to move DOM nodes between documents, resulting in the old document that held the node being freed but the node still having a pointer referencing it. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60, Thunderbird < 52.9, Firefox ESR < 60.1, Firefox ESR < 52.9, and Firefox < 61.

Solution

mozilla-firefox-upgrade-61_0
Title
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