ArchLinux: 201803-13: firefox: arbitrary code execution
Summary
An out of bounds memory write vulnerability has been discovered in libvorbis before 1.3.6 while processing Vorbis audio data related to codebooks that are not an exact divisor of the partition size.
Resolution
Upgrade to 59.0.1-1.
# pacman -Syu "firefox>=59.0.1-1"
The problem has been fixed upstream in version 59.0.1.
References
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-08/#CVE-2018-5146 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1446062 https://github.com/xiph/vorbis/commit/667ceb4aab60c1f74060143bb24e5f427b3cce5f https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q1/243 https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2018-5146
Workaround
None.