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Mageia: MGASA-2021-0506 Moderate: Thunderbird Security Threats

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Calendar Grey November 10, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Revised Firefox distributions tackle critical vulnerabilities like memory leaks, confinement failures, and web impersonation threats.
Updated thunderbird packages fix security vulnerabilities: The iframe sandbox rules were not correctly applied to XSLT stylesheets, allowing an iframe to bypass restrictions such ...

Summary

Updated thunderbird packages fix security vulnerabilities:
The iframe sandbox rules were not correctly applied to XSLT stylesheets, allowing an iframe to bypass restrictions such as executing scripts or navigating the top-level frame (CVE-2021-38503).
When interacting with an HTML input element's file picker dialog with webkitdirectory set, a use-after-free could have resulted, leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash (CVE-2021-38504).
Through a series of navigations, Thunderbird could have entered fullscreen mode without notification or warning to the user. This could lead to spoofing attacks on the browser UI including phishing (CVE-2021-38506).
The Opportunistic Encryption feature of HTTP2 (RFC 8164) allows a connection to be transparently upgraded to TLS while retaining the visual properties of an HTTP connection, including being same-origin with unencrypted connections on port 80. However, if a second encrypted port on the same IP address (e.g. port 8443...

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References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29625

- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-50/

- https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/91.3.0/releasenotes/

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

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/thunderbird-91.3.0-1.mga8

- 8/core/thunderbird-l10n-91.3.0-1.mga8

Publication date: 10 Nov 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0506.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-XXXX

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