Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-12379  

A security issue has been found in Thunderbird versions prior to 60.2.1. 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.

Severity Medium

Remote No

Type Arbitrary code execution

Description

A security issue has been found in Thunderbird versions prior to 60.2.1. 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.

AVG-782 thunderbird 60.0-4 60.2.1-1 Critical Fixed FS#60424

18 Oct 2018 ASA-201810-13 AVG-782 thunderbird Critical multiple issues

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-25/#CVE-2018-12379
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473113