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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.

References