CVE-2018-12359: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 4.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A buffer overflow can occur when rendering canvas content while adjusting the height and width of the canvas element dynamically, causing data to be written outside of the currently computed boundaries. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60, Thunderbird < 52.9, Firefox ESR < 60.1, Firefox ESR < 52.9, and Firefox < 61.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 17.10 only; version 18.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Mozilla Firefox: before 61.0 (fixed in 61.0)
• Mozilla Firefox ESR: before 52.9 (fixed in 52.9); from 53.0, before 60.1 (fixed in 60.1)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: before 52.9 (fixed in 52.9); version 52.9.1 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 7.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 7.5 only; version 7.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: version 7.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only

Published 2018-10-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.