CVE-2018-18500: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 12.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur while parsing an HTML5 stream in concert with custom HTML elements. This results in the stream parser object being freed while still in use, leading to a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60.5, Firefox ESR < 60.5, and Firefox < 65.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 18.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Mozilla Firefox: before 65.0 (fixed in 65.0)
• Mozilla Firefox ESR: before 60.5 (fixed in 60.5)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: before 60.5 (fixed in 60.5)
• 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 7.6 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 2019-02-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.