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openSUSE Leap 15.3: 2021:2003-1 Important: MozillaThunderbird Issues

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Calendar Grey July 10, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Update for Mozilla Thunderbird is available, addressing significant security vulnerabilities related to memory safety and issues with out-of-bounds read errors.
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

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 15.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2021-2003=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

MozillaThunderbird-78.11.0-8.30.1

MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo-78.11.0-8.30.1

MozillaThunderbird-debugsource-78.11.0-8.30.1

MozillaThunderbird-translations-common-78.11.0-8.30.1

MozillaThunderbird-translations-other-78.11.0-8.30.1

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-2021:2003-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 .

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