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MFSA2018-26 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 63 (CVE-2018-12401)

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MFSA2018-26 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 63 (CVE-2018-12401)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/23/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/24/2018
Modified
03/04/2019

Description

Some special resource URIs will cause a non-exploitable crash if loaded with optional parameters following a '?' in the parsed string. This could lead to denial of service (DOS) attacks. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 63.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-63_0

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