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A MozillaThunderbird security update has been released for openSUSE Leap 15.2.



openSUSE-SU-2021:0580-1: important: Security update for MozillaThunderbird


openSUSE Security Update: Security update for MozillaThunderbird
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0580-1
Rating: important
References: #1177542 #1183942 #1184536
Cross-References: CVE-2021-23981 CVE-2021-23982 CVE-2021-23984
CVE-2021-23987 CVE-2021-23991 CVE-2021-23992
CVE-2021-23993
CVSS scores:
CVE-2021-23981 (NVD) : 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVE-2021-23981 (SUSE): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE-2021-23982 (NVD) : 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVE-2021-23982 (SUSE): 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVE-2021-23984 (NVD) : 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVE-2021-23984 (SUSE): 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVE-2021-23987 (NVD) : 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE-2021-23987 (SUSE): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE-2021-23991 (SUSE): 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVE-2021-23992 (SUSE): 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVE-2021-23993 (SUSE): 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 15.2
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An update that fixes 7 vulnerabilities is now available.

Description:

This update for MozillaThunderbird fixes the following issues:

- Mozilla Thunderbird was updated to version 78.9.1 (MFSA 2021-12,MFSA
2021-13, bsc#1183942, bsc#1184536)
* CVE-2021-23981: Texture upload into an unbound backing buffer resulted
in an out-of-bound read
* CVE-2021-23982: Internal network hosts could have been probed by a
malicious webpage
* CVE-2021-23984: Malicious extensions could have spoofed popup
information
* CVE-2021-23987: Memory safety bugs
* CVE-2021-23991: An attacker may use Thunderbird's OpenPGP key refresh
mechanism to poison an existing key
* CVE-2021-23992: A crafted OpenPGP key with an invalid user ID could be
used to confuse the user
* CVE-2021-23993: Inability to send encrypted OpenPGP email after
importing a crafted OpenPGP key
- cleaned up and fixed mozilla.sh.in for wayland (bsc#1177542)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP2:Update update project.

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-580=1


Package List:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

MozillaThunderbird-78.9.1-lp152.2.38.1
MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo-78.9.1-lp152.2.38.1
MozillaThunderbird-debugsource-78.9.1-lp152.2.38.1
MozillaThunderbird-translations-common-78.9.1-lp152.2.38.1
MozillaThunderbird-translations-other-78.9.1-lp152.2.38.1

References:

  https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23981.html
  https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23982.html
  https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23984.html
  https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23987.html
  https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23991.html
  https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23992.html
  https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23993.html
  https://bugzilla.suse.com/1177542
  https://bugzilla.suse.com/1183942
  https://bugzilla.suse.com/1184536