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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2018-18504 json

A crash and out-of-bounds read can occur when the buffer of a texture client is freed while it is still in use during graphic operations.

published 2019-02-05 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-10229

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.8%
EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A crash and out-of-bounds read can occur when the buffer of a texture client is freed while it is still in use during graphic operations. This results is a potentially exploitable crash and the possibility of reading from the memory of the freed buffers. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 65.

Patch / fix

  • mozilla firefox 65.0
  • firefox Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 65.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • firefox Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 65.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • firefox Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 65.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18504

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 128.5.1-1.1
  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 92.0-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1

  • firefox Arch Linux 65.0-1

arch linux advisories AVG-862

Exploit prediction

1.79% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

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Sources

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