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openSUSE: 2022:0824-1 Critical: Mozilla Firefox Security Update

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Calendar Grey June 24, 2021
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OpenSUSE has announced a vital Security Update aimed at addressing critical vulnerabilities in Mozilla Thunderbird, offering users detailed patch instructions for system security
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for MozillaThunderbird fixes the following issues:

Mozilla Thunderbird 78.11 (bsc#1186696)

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2021-29964: Out of bounds-read when parsing a `WM_COPYDATA` message

- CVE-2021-29967: Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 78.11

General improvements:

- OpenPGP could not be disabled for an account if a key was previously

configured

- Recipients were unable to decrypt some messages when the sender had

changed the message encryption from OpenPGP to S/MIME

- Contacts moved between CardDAV address books were not synced to the new

server

- CardDAV compatibility fixes for Google Contacts

- Folder pane had no clear indication of focus on macOS

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP2:Update update project.

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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 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-910=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

MozillaThunderbird-78.11.0-lp152.2.45.1

MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo-78.11.0-lp152.2.45.1

MozillaThunderbird-debugsource-78.11.0-lp152.2.45.1

MozillaThunderbird-translations-common-78.11.0-lp152.2.45.1

MozillaThunderbird-translations-other-78.11.0-lp152.2.45.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29964.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29967.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186696

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0910-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

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