Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2023-21
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 102.12
- Announced
- June 7, 2023
- Impact
- high
- Products
- Thunderbird
- Fixed in
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- Thunderbird 102.12
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-2023-34414: Click-jacking certificate exceptions through rendering lag
- Reporter
- Irvan Kurniawan
- Impact
- high
Description
The error page for sites with invalid TLS certificates was missing the activation-delay Thunderbird uses to protect prompts and permission dialogs from attacks that exploit human response time delays. If a malicious page elicited user clicks in precise locations immediately before navigating to a site with a certificate error and made the renderer extremely busy at the same time, it could create a gap between when the error page was loaded and when the display actually refreshed. With the right timing the elicited clicks could land in that gap and activate the button that overrides the certificate error for that site.
References
#CVE-2023-34416: Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 102.12
- Reporter
- Mozilla developers and community
- Impact
- high
Description
Mozilla developers and community members Gabriele Svelto, Andrew McCreight, the Mozilla Fuzzing Team, Sean Feng, and Sebastian Hengst reported memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 102.11. 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.