UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5156

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5156
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5156.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5156
Upstream
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-06-27T00:00:00Z
Modified
2025-09-08T16:44:43Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

A vulnerability can occur when capturing a media stream when the media source type is changed as the capture is occurring. This can result in stream data being cast to the wrong type causing a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60, Firefox ESR < 60.1, Firefox ESR < 52.9, and Firefox < 61.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / firefox

Package

Name
firefox
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/firefox@61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.2?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

Affected versions

24.*

24.0+build1-0ubuntu1

25.*

25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.10.1

28.*

28.0~b2+build1-0ubuntu2
28.0+build1-0ubuntu1
28.0+build2-0ubuntu1
28.0+build2-0ubuntu2

29.*

29.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

30.*

30.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.3

31.*

31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

32.*

32.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
32.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

33.*

33.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

34.*

34.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

35.*

35.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
35.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

36.*

36.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.4
36.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
36.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

37.*

37.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
37.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
37.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

38.*

38.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

39.*

39.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
39.0.3+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

40.*

40.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
40.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.4
40.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

41.*

41.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
41.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

42.*

42.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

43.*

43.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
43.0.4+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

44.*

44.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
44.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
44.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

45.*

45.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
45.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

46.*

46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
46.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.3

47.*

47.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

48.*

48.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

49.*

49.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
49.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

50.*

50.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
50.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

51.*

51.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
51.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

52.*

52.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
52.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
52.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

53.*

53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
53.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
53.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

54.*

54.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

55.*

55.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
55.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

56.*

56.0+build6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
56.0+build6-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

57.*

57.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.4
57.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.5
57.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
57.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
57.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

58.*

58.0+build6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
58.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
58.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

59.*

59.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
59.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
59.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
59.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.4

60.*

60.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
60.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
60.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox",
            "binary_version": "61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox-dev",
            "binary_version": "61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox-globalmenu",
            "binary_version": "61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox-mozsymbols",
            "binary_version": "61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox-testsuite",
            "binary_version": "61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.2"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / firefox

Package

Name
firefox
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/firefox@61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.2?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

Affected versions

41.*

41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu1

42.*

42.0+build2-0ubuntu1

44.*

44.0+build3-0ubuntu2
44.0.1+build1-0ubuntu1
44.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1

45.*

45.0+build2-0ubuntu1
45.0.1+build1-0ubuntu1
45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1

46.*

46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
46.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

47.*

47.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

48.*

48.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

49.*

49.0+build4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
49.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

50.*

50.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
50.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

51.*

51.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
51.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

52.*

52.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
52.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
52.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

53.*

53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
53.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
53.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

54.*

54.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

55.*

55.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
55.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

56.*

56.0+build6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
56.0+build6-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

57.*

57.0+build4-0ubuntu0.16.04.5
57.0+build4-0ubuntu0.16.04.6
57.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
57.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
57.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

58.*

58.0+build6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
58.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
58.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

59.*

59.0+build5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
59.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
59.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
59.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.3

60.*

60.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
60.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
60.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox",
            "binary_version": "61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox-dev",
            "binary_version": "61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox-globalmenu",
            "binary_version": "61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox-mozsymbols",
            "binary_version": "61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox-testsuite",
            "binary_version": "61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.2"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / firefox

Package

Name
firefox
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/firefox@61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Affected versions

56.*

56.0+build6-0ubuntu1

57.*

57.0.1+build2-0ubuntu1

59.*

59.0.1+build1-0ubuntu1
59.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1

60.*

60.0+build2-0ubuntu1
60.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
60.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox",
            "binary_version": "61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox-dev",
            "binary_version": "61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox-globalmenu",
            "binary_version": "61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox-mozsymbols",
            "binary_version": "61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox-testsuite",
            "binary_version": "61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1"
        }
    ]
}