Updated thunderbird packages fix security vulnerabilities
Publication date: 18 Feb 2020Modification date: 18 Feb 2020
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-6792 , CVE-2020-6793 , CVE-2020-6794 , CVE-2020-6795 , CVE-2020-6798 , CVE-2020-6800
Description
Updated thunderbird packages fix security vulnerabilities: When deriving an identifier for an email message, uninitialized memory was used in addition to the message contents (CVE-2020-6792). When processing an email message with an ill-formed envelope, Thunderbird could read data from a random memory location (CVE-2020-6793). If a user saved passwords before Thunderbird 60 and then later set a master password, an unencrypted copy of these passwords is still accessible. This is because the older stored password file was not deleted when the data was copied to a new format starting in Thunderbird 60. The new master password is added only on the new file. This could allow the exposure of stored password data outside of user expectations (CVE-2020-6794). When processing a message that contains multiple S/MIME signatures, a bug in the MIME processing code caused a null pointer dereference, leading to an unexploitable crash (CVE-2020-6795). If a tag was used in a
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26188
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-07/
- https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/68.5.0/releasenotes/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6792
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6793
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6794
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6795
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6798
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6800
SRPMS
7/core
- thunderbird-68.5.0-1.mga7
- thunderbird-l10n-68.5.0-1.mga7