CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-12363

Use After Free

Published: Oct 18, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
8.8 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Enterprise_linux_desktop Redhat 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)
Enterprise_linux_desktop Redhat 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)
Enterprise_linux_server Redhat 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)
Enterprise_linux_server Redhat 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)
Enterprise_linux_server_aus Redhat 7.6 (including) 7.6 (including)
Enterprise_linux_server_eus Redhat 7.5 (including) 7.5 (including)
Enterprise_linux_server_eus Redhat 7.6 (including) 7.6 (including)
Enterprise_linux_server_tus Redhat 7.6 (including) 7.6 (including)
Enterprise_linux_workstation Redhat 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)
Enterprise_linux_workstation Redhat 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat firefox-0:60.1.0-5.el6 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat thunderbird-0:52.9.1-1.el6 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat firefox-0:60.1.0-4.el7_5 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat thunderbird-0:52.9.1-1.el7_5 *
Firefox Ubuntu artful *
Firefox Ubuntu bionic *
Firefox Ubuntu devel *
Firefox Ubuntu trusty *
Firefox Ubuntu upstream *
Firefox Ubuntu xenial *
Thunderbird Ubuntu artful *
Thunderbird Ubuntu bionic *
Thunderbird Ubuntu devel *
Thunderbird Ubuntu trusty *
Thunderbird Ubuntu upstream *
Thunderbird Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References