Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2021-54
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 91.4.0
- Announced
- December 7, 2021
- Impact
- high
- Products
- Thunderbird
- Fixed in
-
- Thunderbird 91.4
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-2021-43536: URL leakage when navigating while executing asynchronous function
- Reporter
- Sunwoo Kim and Youngmin Kim of SNU CompSec Lab
- Impact
- high
Description
Under certain circumstances, asynchronous functions could have caused a navigation to fail but expose the target URL.
References
#CVE-2021-43537: Heap buffer overflow when using structured clone
- Reporter
- bo13oy of Cyber Kunlun Lab
- Impact
- high
Description
An incorrect type conversion of sizes from 64bit to 32bit integers allowed an attacker to corrupt memory leading to a potentially exploitable crash.
References
#CVE-2021-43538: Missing fullscreen and pointer lock notification when requesting both
- Reporter
- Irvan Kurniawan (@sourc7)
- Impact
- high
Description
By misusing a race in our notification code, an attacker could have forcefully hidden the notification for pages that had received full screen and pointer lock access, which could have been used for spoofing attacks.
References
#CVE-2021-43539: GC rooting failure when calling wasm instance methods
- Reporter
- Asumu Takikawa and Ioanna Dimitriou
- Impact
- high
Description
Failure to correctly record the location of live pointers across wasm instance calls resulted in a GC occurring within the call not tracing those live pointers. This could have led to a use-after-free causing a potentially exploitable crash.
References
#CVE-2021-43541: External protocol handler parameters were unescaped
- Reporter
- chriscla
- Impact
- moderate
Description
When invoking protocol handlers for external protocols, a supplied parameter URL containing spaces was not properly escaped.
References
#CVE-2021-43542: XMLHttpRequest error codes could have leaked the existence of an external protocol handler
- Reporter
- Raphael Smolik
- Impact
- moderate
Description
Using XMLHttpRequest, an attacker could have identified installed applications by probing error messages for loading external protocols.
References
#CVE-2021-43543: Bypass of CSP sandbox directive when embedding
- Reporter
- Armin Ebert
- Impact
- moderate
Description
Documents loaded with the CSP sandbox directive could have escaped the sandbox's script restriction by embedding additional content.
References
#CVE-2021-43545: Denial of Service when using the Location API in a loop
- Reporter
- Paul Zühlcke
- Impact
- low
Description
Using the Location API in a loop could have caused severe application hangs and crashes.
References
#CVE-2021-43546: Cursor spoofing could overlay user interface when native cursor is zoomed
- Reporter
- Daniel Veditz
- Impact
- low
Description
It was possible to recreate previous cursor spoofing attacks against users with a zoomed native cursor.
References
#CVE-2021-43528: JavaScript unexpectedly enabled for the composition area
- Reporter
- Pedro Batista
- Impact
- low
Description
Thunderbird unexpectedly enabled JavaScript in the composition area. The JavaScript execution context was limited to this area and did not receive chrome-level privileges, but could be used as a stepping stone to further an attack with other vulnerabilities.
References
#CVE-2021-4129: Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 91.4.0
- Reporter
- Mozilla developers and community
- Impact
- high
Description
Mozilla developers and community members Julian Hector, Randell Jesup, Gabriele Svelto, Tyson Smith, Christian Holler, and Masayuki Nakano reported memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 91.3. 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.