A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in the compositor during certain graphics operations when a raw pointer is used instead of a reference counted one. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.7.3 and Firefox < 59.0.2.
History

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Mozilla firefox Esr

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2018-06-11T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T05:26:46.951Z

Reserved: 2018-01-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-5148

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:14.873

Modified: 2025-11-25T17:50:16.803

Link: CVE-2018-5148

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2018-03-26T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-5148 - Bugzilla