openSUSE-SU-2019:0251-1

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    openSUSE-SU-2019:0251-1

    Published: 23 Mar 2019Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Security update for MozillaThunderbird

    Details: This update for MozillaThunderbird to version 60.5.1 fixes the following issues: Security vulnerabilities addressed (MSFA 2019-03 MSFA 2018-31 MFSA 2019-06 bsc#1122983 bsc#1119105 bsc#1125330): - CVE-2018-18356: Fixed a Use-after-free in Skia. - CVE-2019-5785: Fixed an Integer overflow in Skia. - CVE-2018-18335: Fixed a Buffer overflow in Skia by default deactivating Canvas 2D. This issue does not affect Linuc distributions. - CVE-2018-18509: Fixed a flaw which during verification of certain S/MIME signatures showing mistekenly that emails bring a valid sugnature. - CVE-2018-18500: Use-after-free parsing HTML5 stream - CVE-2018-18505: Privilege escalation through IPC channel messages - CVE-2016-5824 DoS (use-after-free) via a crafted ics file - CVE-2018-18501: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 65 and Firefox ESR 60.5 - CVE-2018-17466: Buffer overflow and out-of-bounds read in ANGLE library with TextureStorage11 - CVE-2018-18492: Use-after-free with select element - CVE-2018-18493: Buffer overflow in accelerated 2D canvas with Skia - CVE-2018-18494: Same-origin policy violation using location attribute and performance.getEntries to steal cross-origin URLs - CVE-2018-18498: Integer overflow when calculating buffer sizes for images - CVE-2018-12405: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 64, 60.4, and Thunderbird 60.4 Other bug fixes and changes: - FileLink provider WeTransfer to upload large attachments - Thunderbird now allows the addition of OpenSearch search engines from a local XML file using a minimal user interface: [+] button to select a file an add, [-] to remove. - More search engines: Google and DuckDuckGo available by default in some locales - During account creation, Thunderbird will now detect servers using the Microsoft Exchange protocol. It will offer the installation of a 3rd party add-on (Owl) which supports that protocol. - Thunderbird now compatible with other WebExtension-based FileLink add-ons like the Dropbox add-on - New WebExtensions FileLink API to facilitate add-ons - Fix decoding problems for messages with less common charsets (cp932, cp936) - New messages in the drafts folder (and other special or virtual folders) will no longer be included in the new messages notification - Thunderbird 60 will migrate security databases (key3.db, cert8.db to key4.db, cert9.db). - Address book search and auto-complete slowness - Plain text markup with * for bold, / for italics, _ for underline and | for code did not work when the enclosed text contained non-ASCII characters - While composing a message, a link not removed when link location was removed in the link properties panel - Encoding problems when exporting address books or messages using the system charset. Messages are now always exported using the UTF-8 encoding - If the 'Date' header of a message was invalid, Jan 1970 or Dec 1969 was displayed. Now using date from 'Received' header instead. - Body search/filtering didn't reliably ignore content of tags - Inappropriate warning 'Thunderbird prevented the site (addons.thunderbird.net) from asking you to install software on your computer' when installing add-ons - Incorrect display of correspondents column since own email address was not always detected - Spurious 
 (encoded newline) inserted into drafts and sent email - Double-clicking on a word in the Write window sometimes launched the Advanced Property Editor or Link Properties dialog - Fixed Cookie removal - 'Download rest of message' was not working if global inbox was used - Fix Encoding problems for users (especially in Poland) when a file was sent via a folder using 'Sent to > Mail recipient' due to a problem in the Thunderbird MAPI interface - According to RFC 4616 and RFC 5721, passwords containing non-ASCII characters are encoded using UTF-8 which can lead to problems with non-compliant providers, for example office365.com. The SMTP LOGIN and POP3 USER/PASS authentication methods are now using a Latin-1 encoding again to work around this issue - Fix shutdown crash/hang after entering an empty IMAP password This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
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    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
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    Low
    High