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openSUSE: 2021:0093-1 Important: MozillaThunderbird DoS Security Fix

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Calendar Grey January 16, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Important notice regarding Mozilla Thunderbird patch for CVE-2020-16044; urgent alert for openSUSE Leap 15.2 customers.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for MozillaThunderbird fixes the following issues:

- Mozilla Thunderbird 78.6.1

* changed: MailExtensions: browserAction, composeAction, and

messageDisplayAction toolbar buttons now support label and

default_label properties (bmo#1583478)

* fixed: Running a quicksearch that returned no results did not

offer to re-run as a global search (bmo#1663153)

* fixed: Message search toolbar fixes (bmo#1681010)

* fixed: Very long subject lines distorted the message compose and

display windows, making them unusable (bmo#77806)

* fixed: Compose window: Recipient addresses that had not yet been

autocompleted were lost when clicking Send button (bmo#1674054)

* fixed: Compose window: New message is no longer marked as "changed"

just from tabbing out of the recipient field without editing anything

(bmo#1681389)

* fixed: Account autodiscover fixes when using MS Exchange servers (bmo#1679759)

...

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue update DoS security fix important Mozilla Thunderbird openSUSE MozillaThunderbird openSUSE Leap CVE-2020-16044

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 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-93=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

MozillaThunderbird-78.6.1-lp152.2.26.1

MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo-78.6.1-lp152.2.26.1

MozillaThunderbird-debugsource-78.6.1-lp152.2.26.1

MozillaThunderbird-translations-common-78.6.1-lp152.2.26.1

MozillaThunderbird-translations-other-78.6.1-lp152.2.26.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16044.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1180623

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0093-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue update DoS security fix important Mozilla Thunderbird openSUSE MozillaThunderbird openSUSE Leap CVE-2020-16044

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