CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-12379
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-10-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
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.
Affected configurations
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.6
• redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.5
• redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.6
• redhat enterprise linux server tus 7.6
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• mozilla firefox (< 60.2.0)
• mozilla firefox (< 62.0)
• mozilla thunderbird (< 60.2.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105280 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041610 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2692 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2693 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3403 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3458 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473113 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00011.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-01 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-13 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4327 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-20/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-21/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-25/ Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105280 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041610 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2692 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2693 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3403 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3458 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473113 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00011.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-01 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-13 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4327 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-20/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-21/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-25/ Vendor Advisory