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Ubuntu: USN-3874-1 (CVE-2018-18504): Firefox vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3874-1 (CVE-2018-18504): Firefox vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/29/2019
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/05/2019
Modified
01/20/2021

Description

A crash and out-of-bounds read can occur when the buffer of a texture client is freed while it is still in use during graphic operations. This results is a potentially exploitable crash and the possibility of reading from the memory of the freed buffers. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 65.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

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