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Mageia: 2022-0347 Moderate: Multiple Thunderbird Memory Issues

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Calendar Grey September 26, 2022
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia resolves urgent security vulnerabilities in Thunderbird with updates targeting session fixation, memory safety, and additional concerns.
When injecting an HTML base element, some requests would ignore the CSP's base-uri settings and accept the injected element's base instead (CVE-2022-40956)

Summary

When injecting an HTML base element, some requests would ignore the CSP's base-uri settings and accept the injected element's base instead (CVE-2022-40956).
By injecting a cookie with certain special characters, an attacker on a shared subdomain which is not a secure context could set and thus overwrite cookies from a secure context, leading to session fixation and other attacks (CVE-2022-40958).
During iframe navigation, certain pages did not have their FeaturePolicy fully initialized leading to a bypass that leaked device permissions into untrusted subdocuments (CVE-2022-40959).
Concurrent use of the URL parser with non-UTF-8 data was not thread-safe. This could lead to a use-after-free causing a potentially exploitable crash (CVE-2022-40960).
Mozilla developers Nika Layzell, Timothy Nikkel, Jeff Muizelaar, Sebastian Hengst, Andreas Pehrson, and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 102.2. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruptio...

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References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30870

- https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/102.3.0/releasenotes/

- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-42/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-40956

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-40958

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-40959

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-40960

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-40962

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/thunderbird-102.3.0-1.mga8

- 8/core/thunderbird-l10n-102.3.0-1.mga8

Publication date: 26 Sep 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0347.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-40956, CVE-2022-40958, CVE-2022-40959, CVE-2022-40960, CVE-2022-40962

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