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MFSA2018-20 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 62 (CVE-2018-12379)

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MFSA2018-20 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 62 (CVE-2018-12379)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/05/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
09/06/2018
Modified
12/07/2018

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.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-62_0

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