CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-18492

Use After Free

Published: Feb 28, 2019 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
9.8 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur after deleting a selection element due to a weak reference to the select element in the options collection. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60.4, Firefox ESR < 60.4, and Firefox < 64.

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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.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
Firefox Mozilla * 64.0 (excluding)
Firefox_esr Mozilla * 60.4.0 (excluding)
Thunderbird Mozilla * 60.4.0 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat firefox-0:60.4.0-1.el6 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat thunderbird-0:60.4.0-1.el6 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat firefox-0:60.4.0-1.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat thunderbird-0:60.4.0-1.el7_6 *
Firefox Ubuntu bionic *
Firefox Ubuntu cosmic *
Firefox Ubuntu devel *
Firefox Ubuntu trusty *
Firefox Ubuntu upstream *
Firefox Ubuntu xenial *
Thunderbird Ubuntu bionic *
Thunderbird Ubuntu cosmic *
Thunderbird Ubuntu devel *
Thunderbird Ubuntu trusty *
Thunderbird Ubuntu upstream *
Thunderbird Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References