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Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2021-05

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 78.7

Announced
January 26, 2021
Impact
high
Products
Thunderbird
Fixed in
  • Thunderbird 78.7

In general, these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled when reading mail, but are potentially risks in browser or browser-like contexts.

#CVE-2021-23953: Cross-origin information leakage via redirected PDF requests

Reporter
Rob Wu
Impact
high
Description

If a user clicked into a specifically crafted PDF, the PDF reader could be confused into leaking cross-origin information, when said information is served as chunked data.

References

#CVE-2021-23954: Type confusion when using logical assignment operators in JavaScript switch statements

Reporter
Gary Kwong
Impact
high
Description

Using the new logical assignment operators in a JavaScript switch statement could have caused a type confusion, leading to a memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash.

References

#CVE-2020-15685: IMAP Response Injection when using STARTTLS

Reporter
Damian Poddebniak
Impact
moderate
Description

During the plaintext phase of the STARTTLS connection setup, protocol commands could have been injected and evaluated within the encrypted session.

References

#CVE-2020-26976: HTTPS pages could have been intercepted by a registered service worker when they should not have been

Reporter
Andrew Sutherland
Impact
moderate
Description

When a HTTPS page was embedded in a HTTP page, and there was a service worker registered for the former, the service worker could have intercepted the request for the secure page despite the iframe not being a secure context due to the (insecure) framing.

References

#CVE-2021-23960: Use-after-poison for incorrectly redeclared JavaScript variables during GC

Reporter
Irvan Kurniawan
Impact
moderate
Description

Performing garbage collection on re-declared JavaScript variables resulted in a user-after-poison, and a potentially exploitable crash.

References

#CVE-2021-23964: Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 78.7

Reporter
Mozilla developers and community
Impact
high
Description

Mozilla developers Alexis Beingessner, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Tyson Smith, Jon Coppeard, André Bargull, Jason Kratzer, Jesse Schwartzentruber, Steve Fink, Byron Campen reported memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 78.6. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.

References