CVE-2018-18493

critical
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.5

Description

A buffer overflow can occur in the Skia library during buffer offset calculations with hardware accelerated canvas 2D actions due to the use of 32-bit calculations instead of 64-bit. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60.4, Firefox ESR < 60.4, and Firefox < 64.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Affected
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Fixed 64.0-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 60.4.0esr-1
sid Fixed 64.0-1
forky Fixed 60.4.0esr-1
bullseye Fixed 60.4.0esr-1
bookworm Fixed 60.4.0esr-1

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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