#16938 closed enhancement (fixed)

thunderbird-102.2.0

Reported by: Bruce Dubbs Owned by: Douglas R. Reno
Priority: elevated Milestone: 11.2
Component: BOOK Version: git
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

New minor version.

Change History (4)

comment:1 by Douglas R. Reno, 20 months ago

Priority: normalelevated

comment:2 by Douglas R. Reno, 20 months ago

Owner: changed from blfs-book to Douglas R. Reno
Status: newassigned

comment:3 by Douglas R. Reno, 20 months ago

What’s New

Config setting added to disable OpenPGP "encryption is possible" reminder: mail.openpgp.remind_encryption_possible

Changes

Thunderbird on macOS will now prompt for Primary Password on startup if set

Thunderbird will no longer offer to import OpenPGP keys that are incomplete

Selecting or unselecting a dictionary in the Spelling compose toolbar button will no longer immediately close the menu; Making dictionary changes via the editor context menu will continue to close the context menu

Contact address lines are now adjusted to appear in the expected order

Custom1-4 fields restored to Address Book UI; existing data is preserved from pre-102 profiles

Fixes

Thunderbird startup performance improvements

ALT+<numpad digits> keypress events were intercepted by the Spaces Toolbar, preventing special character entry on Windows

Searching on attachment status did not work in Message Search dialog

Repairing IMAP folders in Offline mode removed local copy of the folders

POP3 message download progress bar was not displayed

POP Fetch headers only mode did not work for some server configurations

POP accounts using GSSAPI or NTLM authentication were not able to log into the server

A TLS certificate override dialog for self-signed certificates was not shown for IMAP accounts

Saving attachments from newsgroups did not work

Setting contact type to "None" was not possible if a type was previously set

Editing a contact without Name fields populated filled in the email address into the name fields

Address book toolbar buttons were not keyboard accessible

Auto-detection of CalDAV and CardDAV via DNS records used server domain leading to failures

Various visual and theme improvements

Various security fixes


Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2022-36 Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 102.2

Announced

August 23, 2022

Impact

high

Products

Thunderbird

Fixed in

Thunderbird 102.2

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-2022-38472: Address bar spoofing via XSLT error handling

Impact

high

Description

An attacker could have abused XSLT error handling to associate attacker-controlled content with another origin which was displayed in the address bar. This could have been used to fool the user into submitting data intended for the spoofed origin. References

Bug 1769155

#CVE-2022-38473: Cross-origin XSLT Documents would have inherited the parent's permissions

Impact

high

Description

A cross-origin iframe referencing an XSLT document would inherit the parent domain's permissions (such as microphone or camera access). References

Bug 1771685

#CVE-2022-38476: Data race and potential use-after-free in PK11_ChangePW

Impact

low

Description

A data race could occur in the PK11_ChangePW function, potentially leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. In Thunderbird, this lock protected the data when a user changed their master password. References

Bug 1760998

#CVE-2022-38477: Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 102.2

Impact

high

Description

Mozilla developer Nika Layzell and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 102.1. 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. References

Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 102.2

#CVE-2022-38478: Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 102.2, and Thunderbird 91.13

Impact

high

Description

Members the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 102.1 and Thunderbird 91.12. 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. References

Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 102.2, and Thunderbird 91.13

comment:4 by Douglas R. Reno, 20 months ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed
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