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Mageia: 2021-0242 Moderate: Thunderbird Memory Safety Fix

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Calendar Grey June 8, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Enhanced Thunderbird releases for Mageia tackle identified security concerns related to memory integrity and boundaries reading flaws.
The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: Out of bounds-read when parsing a `WM_COPYDATA` message

Summary

The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities:
Out of bounds-read when parsing a `WM_COPYDATA` message. (CVE-2021-29964)
Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 78.11. (CVE-2021-29967)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29073

- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-26/

- https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/78.11.0/releasenotes/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-29964

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-29967

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory software update moderate severity thunderbird memory safety mageia bounds read

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/thunderbird-78.11.0-1.mga7

- 7/core/thunderbird-l10n-78.11.0-1.mga7

- 8/core/thunderbird-78.11.0-1.mga8

- 8/core/thunderbird-l10n-78.11.0-1.mga8

Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
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Critical

Publication date: 08 Jun 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0242.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-29964, CVE-2021-29967

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory software update moderate severity thunderbird memory safety mageia bounds read

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