vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-12379: firefox-esr, thunderbird -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 5, 2018
Added
Oct 27, 2018
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

When the Mozilla Updater opens a MAR format file which contains a very long item filename, an out-of-bounds write can be triggered, leading to a potentially exploitable crash. This requires running the Mozilla Updater manually on the local system with the malicious MAR file in order to occur. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 62, Firefox ESR < 60.2, and Thunderbird < 60.2.1.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-firefox-esrdebian-upgrade-thunderbird
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