MGASA-2018-0248

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    MGASA-2018-0248

    Published: 17 May 2018Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerabilities: Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 52.8 (CVE-2018-5150). Mozilla: Backport critical security fixes in Skia (CVE-2018-5183). Mozilla: Use-after-free with SVG animations and clip paths (CVE-2018-5154). Mozilla: Use-after-free with SVG animations and text paths (CVE-2018-5155). Mozilla: Same-origin bypass of PDF Viewer to view protected PDF files (CVE-2018-5157). Mozilla: Malicious PDF can inject JavaScript into PDF Viewer (CVE-2018-5158). Mozilla: Integer overflow and out-of-bounds write in Skia (CVE-2018-5159). Mozilla: Lightweight themes can be installed without user interaction (CVE-2018-5168). Mozilla: Buffer overflow during UTF-8 to Unicode string conversion through legacy extension (CVE-2018-5178). Rootcerts has been updated to 20180411.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0248.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23031, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-12/, https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1415

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: firefox

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/firefox?arch=source&distro=mageia-6

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -52.8.0-1.mga6

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High