Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2019-30

Security vulnerabilities fixed in - Thunderbird 68.1

Announced
September 11, 2019
Impact
high
Products
Thunderbird
Fixed in
  • Thunderbird 68.1

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-2019-11739: Covert Content Attack on S/MIME encryption using a crafted multipart/alternative message

Reporter
Jens Müller, Marcus Brinkmann, Damian Poddebniak, Sebastian Schinzel, Jörg Schwenk
Impact
high
Description

Encrypted S/MIME parts in a crafted multipart/alternative message can leak plaintext when included in a a HTML reply/forward.

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#CVE-2019-11746: Use-after-free while manipulating video

Reporter
Nils
Impact
high
Description

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur while manipulating video elements if the body is freed while still in use. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.

References

#CVE-2019-11744: XSS by breaking out of title and textarea elements using innerHTML

Reporter
Rakesh Mane
Impact
high
Description

Some HTML elements, such as <title> and <textarea>, can contain literal angle brackets without treating them as markup. It is possible to pass a literal closing tag to .innerHTML on these elements, and subsequent content after that will be parsed as if it were outside the tag. This can lead to XSS if a site does not filter user input as strictly for these elements as it does for other elements.

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#CVE-2019-11742: Same-origin policy violation with SVG filters and canvas to steal cross-origin images

Reporter
Paul Stone
Impact
high
Description

A same-origin policy violation occurs allowing the theft of cross-origin images through a combination of SVG filters and a <canvas> element due to an error in how same-origin policy is applied to cached image content. The resulting same-origin policy violation could allow for data theft.

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#CVE-2019-11752: Use-after-free while extracting a key value in IndexedDB

Reporter
Zhanjia Song
Impact
high
Description

It is possible to delete an IndexedDB key value and subsequently try to extract it during conversion. This results in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash.

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#CVE-2019-11743: Cross-origin access to unload event attributes

Reporter
Yoav Weiss
Impact
moderate
Description

Navigation events were not fully adhering to the W3C's "Navigation-Timing Level 2" draft specification in some instances for the unload event, which restricts access to detailed timing attributes to only be same-origin. This resulted in potential cross-origin information exposure of history through timing side-channel attacks.

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#CVE-2019-11740: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 69, Firefox ESR 68.1, Firefox ESR 60.9, Thunderbird 68.1, and Thunderbird 60.9

Reporter
Mozilla developers and community
Impact
high
Description

Mozilla developers and community members Tyson Smith and Nathan Froyd reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 68, Firefox ESR 68, Firefox 60.8, Thunderbird 68, and Thunderbird 60.8. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.

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