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openSUSE: 2020:0231-1 Important: MozillaThunderbird Memory Bugs Fixed

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Calendar Grey February 18, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The latest update for Mozilla Thunderbird addresses several security concerns, notably enhancing memory protection and fixing authentication flaws.
An update that fixes 7 vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for MozillaThunderbird fixes the following issues:

- Mozilla Thunderbird 68.5 (bsc#1162777) MFSA 2020-07 (bsc#1163368)

* CVE-2020-6793 (bmo#1608539) Out-of-bounds read when processing certain

email messages

* CVE-2020-6794 (bmo#1606619) Setting a master password post-Thunderbird

52 does not delete unencrypted previously stored passwords

* CVE-2020-6795 (bmo#1611105) Crash processing S/MIME messages with

multiple signatures

* CVE-2020-6797 (bmo#1596668) Extensions granted downloads.open

permission could open arbitrary applications on Mac OSX

* CVE-2020-6798 (bmo#1602944) Incorrect parsing of template tag could

result in JavaScript injection

* CVE-2020-6792 (bmo#1609607) Message ID calculcation was based on

uninitialized data

* CVE-2020-6800 (bmo#1595786, bmo#1596706, bmo#1598543, bmo#1604851,

bmo#1605777, bmo#1608580, bmo#1608785) Memory safety bugs fixed in

Thunderbird 68.5

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Patch

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 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-231=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

MozillaThunderbird-68.5.0-lp151.2.25.1

MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo-68.5.0-lp151.2.25.1

MozillaThunderbird-debugsource-68.5.0-lp151.2.25.1

MozillaThunderbird-translations-common-68.5.0-lp151.2.25.1

MozillaThunderbird-translations-other-68.5.0-lp151.2.25.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6792.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6793.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6794.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6795.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6797.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6798.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6800.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1162777

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1163368

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0231-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1

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