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CVE-2018-18505
critical
Description
An earlier fix for an Inter-process Communication (IPC) vulnerability, CVE-2011-3079, added authentication to communication between IPC endpoints and server parents during IPC process creation. This authentication is insufficient for channels created after the IPC process is started, leading to the authentication not being correctly applied to later channels. This could allow for a sandbox escape through IPC channels due to lack of message validation in the listener process. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60.5, Firefox ESR < 60.5, and Firefox < 65.
References
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4392
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4376
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3897-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3874-1/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-07
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-04
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00024.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00025.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0270
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0269
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0219
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0218
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106781
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00021.html