Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2021-09
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 78.8
- Announced
- February 23, 2021
- Impact
- high
- Products
- Thunderbird
- Fixed in
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- Thunderbird 78.8
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-2021-23969: Content Security Policy violation report could have contained the destination of a redirect
- Reporter
- Masato Kinugawa
- Impact
- high
Description
As specified in the W3C Content Security Policy draft, when creating a violation report, "User agents need to ensure that the source file is the URL requested by the page, pre-redirects. If that’s not possible, user agents need to strip the URL down to an origin to avoid unintentional leakage." Under certain types of redirects, Thunderbird incorrectly set the source file to be the destination of the redirects. This was fixed to be the redirect destination's origin.
References
#CVE-2021-23968: Content Security Policy violation report could have contained the destination of a redirect
- Reporter
- Ademar Nowasky Junior
- Impact
- high
Description
If Content Security Policy blocked frame navigation, the full destination of a redirect served in the frame was reported in the violation report; as opposed to the original frame URI. This could be used to leak sensitive information contained in such URIs.
References
#CVE-2021-23973: MediaError message property could have leaked information about cross-origin resources
- Reporter
- Andreas Pehrson
- Impact
- low
Description
When trying to load a cross-origin resource in an audio/video context a decoding error may have resulted, and the content of that error may have revealed information about the resource.
References
#CVE-2021-23978: Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 78.8
- Reporter
- Mozilla developers
- Impact
- high
Description
Mozilla developers Alexis Beingessner, Tyson Smith, Nika Layzell, and Mats Palmgren reported memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 78.7. 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.