A use-after-free vulnerability can occur 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. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60, Thunderbird < 52.9, Firefox ESR < 60.1, Firefox ESR < 52.9, and Firefox < 61.
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104560
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041193
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2112
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2113
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2251
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2252
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1464784
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00014.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00013.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-01
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-13
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3705-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3714-1/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4235
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4244
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-15/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-16/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-17/
Source: MITRE
Published: 2018-10-18
Updated: 2018-12-03
Type: CWE-416
Base Score: 6.8
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Impact Score: 6.4
Exploitability Score: 8.6
Severity: MEDIUM
Base Score: 8.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Impact Score: 5.9
Exploitability Score: 2.8
Severity: HIGH