CVE-2018-5183

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2018-5183 · Published 11/06/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-5183 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting firefox (mozilla), thunderbird (mozilla), thunderbird esr (mozilla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.2%, higher than 88.0% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 52.8.0 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
firefox mozilla	`< 52.8.0`	`52.8.0`
thunderbird mozilla	`< 52.8.0`	`52.8.0`
thunderbird esr mozilla	`< 52.8.0`	`52.8.0`

Description

Mozilla developers backported selected changes in the Skia library. These changes correct memory corruption issues including invalid buffer reads and writes during graphic operations. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird ESR < 52.8, Thunderbird < 52.8, and Firefox ESR < 52.8.

References

securityfocus.com/bid/104138 · Third Party Advisory
securitytracker.com/id/1040898 · Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1414 · Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1415 · Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1725 · Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1726 · Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi · Issue Tracking
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00007.html · Mailing List
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00013.html · Mailing List
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-01 · Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-13 · Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com/3660-1 · Third Party Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

firefox

mozilla

< 52.8.0

52.8.0

thunderbird

mozilla

< 52.8.0

52.8.0

thunderbird esr

mozilla

< 52.8.0

52.8.0

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