Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-12363  

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in Firefox before 61.0 and Thunderbird before 52.9 when script uses mutation events to move DOM nodes between documents, resulting in the old document that held the node being freed but the node still having a pointer referencing it. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.

Severity High

Remote Yes

Type Arbitrary code execution

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in Firefox before 61.0 and Thunderbird before 52.9 when script uses mutation events to move DOM nodes between documents, resulting in the old document that held the node being freed but the node still having a pointer referencing it. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.

AVG-728 thunderbird 52.8.0-1 52.9.1-1 Critical Fixed

AVG-727 firefox 60.0.2-1 61.0-1 Critical Fixed

16 Jul 2018 ASA-201807-4 AVG-728 thunderbird Critical multiple issues

27 Jun 2018 ASA-201806-14 AVG-727 firefox Critical multiple issues

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-15/#CVE-2018-12363
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1464784