CVE-2018-18505
First published: Tue Jan 29 2019(Updated: )
An earlier fix for an Inter-process Communication (IPC) vulnerability, <a href="https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-3079">CVE-2011-3079</a>, added authentication to communication between IPC endpoints and server parents during IPC process creation. This authentication is insufficient for channels created after the IPC process is started, leading to the authentication not being correctly applied to later channels. This could allow for a sandbox escape through IPC channels due to lack of message validation in the listener process. External Reference: <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-02/#CVE-2018-18505">https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-02/#CVE-2018-18505</a>
Credit: security@mozilla.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Thunderbird | <60.5 | 60.5 |
| Firefox | <65 | 65 |
| Firefox ESR | <60.5 | 60.5 |
| Firefox | <65.0 | |
| Firefox ESR | <60.5.0 | |
| Thunderbird | <60.5.0 | |
| Ubuntu | =14.04 | |
| Ubuntu | =16.04 | |
| Ubuntu | =18.04 | |
| Ubuntu | =18.10 | |
| Debian Linux | =8.0 | |
| Debian Linux | =9.0 | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop | =6.0 | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop | =7.0 | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | =6.0 | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | =7.0 | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | =7.6 | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | =7.6 | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | =7.6 | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation | =6.0 | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation | =7.0 | |
| debian/firefox | 137.0.2-1 | |
| debian/firefox-esr | 115.14.0esr-1~deb11u1 128.9.0esr-1~deb11u1 128.8.0esr-1~deb12u1 128.9.0esr-1~deb12u1 128.9.0esr-2 | |
| debian/thunderbird | 1:115.12.0-1~deb11u1 1:128.9.0esr-1~deb11u1 1:128.8.0esr-1~deb12u1 1:128.9.0esr-1~deb12u1 1:128.9.0esr-1 |
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Reference Links
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1497749
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1087565
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-03/
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-3079
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-02/#CVE-2018-18505
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0218
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0219
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0269
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0270
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1670633
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-01/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-02/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-03/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00025.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4376
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3874-1/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106781
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4392
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-04
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-07
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00024.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3897-1/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00021.html
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2018-18505
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-02/
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-03/#CVE-2018-18501
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-01/
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-01/#CVE-2018-18505
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-03/#CVE-2018-18505
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-18505
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-18505
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18505
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-18505
Peer vulnerabilities
(Found alongside the following vulnerabilities)
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