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openSUSE Leap 15.3: 2021:2458-1 Important: MozillaThunderbird Security Fix

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Calendar Grey July 22, 2021
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OpenSUSE releases a security patch that addresses four vulnerabilities in Mozilla Thunderbird, providing enhancement guidance for users.
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for MozillaThunderbird fixes the following issues:

Mozilla Thunderbird 78.12

* fixed: Sending an email containing HTML links with spaces in the URL

sometimes resulted in broken links

* fixed: Folder Pane display theme fixes for macOS

* fixed: Chat account settings did not always save as expected

* fixed: RSS feed subscriptions sometimes lost

* fixed: Calendar: A parsing error for alarm triggers of type "DURATION"

caused sync problems for some users * fixed: Various security fixes

MFSA 2021-30 (bsc#1188275)

* CVE-2021-29969: IMAP server responses sent by a MITM prior to STARTTLS

could be processed

* CVE-2021-29970: Use-after-free in accessibility features of a document

* CVE-2021-30547: Out of bounds write in ANGLE

* CVE-2021-29976: Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 78.12

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Topics Covered

security advisory accessibility memory safety important update IMAP openSUSE MozillaThunderbird

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-15.3-2021-2458=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

MozillaThunderbird-78.12.0-8.33.1

MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo-78.12.0-8.33.1

MozillaThunderbird-debugsource-78.12.0-8.33.1

MozillaThunderbird-translations-common-78.12.0-8.33.1

MozillaThunderbird-translations-other-78.12.0-8.33.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29969.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29970.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29976.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-30547.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188275

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:2458-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory accessibility memory safety important update IMAP openSUSE MozillaThunderbird

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