debian · CVE-2018-5178

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:59:31 GMT

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CVE-2018-5178 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 2 source packages (firefox-esr, thunderbird), 10 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 10.

Description:

A buffer overflow was found during UTF8 to Unicode string conversion within JavaScript with extremely large amounts of data. This vulnerability requires the use of a malicious or vulnerable legacy extension in order to occur. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird ESR < 52.8, Thunderbird < 52.8, and Firefox ESR < 52.8.

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