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openSUSE: 2021:2874-1 Important Update for MozillaThunderbird Memory Issues

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Calendar Grey August 30, 2021
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A significant enhancement for Mozilla Thunderbird addresses various memory concerns on openSUSE Leap 15.3. Discover all the specifics here.
An update that fixes 6 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for MozillaThunderbird fixes the following issues:

Update to version 78.13 (MFSA 2021-35, bsc#1188891)

- CVE-2021-29986: Race condition when resolving DNS names could have led

to memory corruption

- CVE-2021-29988: Memory corruption as a result of incorrect style

treatment

- CVE-2021-29984: Incorrect instruction reordering during JIT optimization

- CVE-2021-29980: Uninitialized memory in a canvas object could have led

to memory corruption

- CVE-2021-29985: Use-after-free media channels

- CVE-2021-29989: Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 78.13

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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 15.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2021-2874=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

MozillaThunderbird-78.13.0-8.36.1

MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo-78.13.0-8.36.1

MozillaThunderbird-debugsource-78.13.0-8.36.1

MozillaThunderbird-translations-common-78.13.0-8.36.1

MozillaThunderbird-translations-other-78.13.0-8.36.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29980.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29984.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29985.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29986.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29988.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29989.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188891

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:2874-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 .

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