Opened 18 months ago
Closed 17 months ago
#17236 closed enhancement (fixed)
thunderbird-102.5.0
| Reported by: | Bruce Dubbs | Owned by: | pierre |
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| Priority: | elevated | Milestone: | 11.3 |
| Component: | BOOK | Version: | git |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description
New point version.
I don't know how they can call these 'stable'. We have had releases:
20 Sep 29 Sep 6 Oct 12 Oct 19 Oct 26 Oct
Roughly once a week. Perhaps we should wait a month.
Change History (10)
comment:1 by , 18 months ago
| Milestone: | 11.3 → 99-Waiting |
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| Summary: | thunderbird-102.4.1 → thunderbird-102.4.1 (wait until December) |
comment:2 by , 18 months ago
comment:3 by , 18 months ago
Alternatively, Bruce and I discussed this and we'll update anytime Firefox gets an ESR version since they both get updated at the same time
comment:4 by , 18 months ago
Looking at point-level releases for firefox current and thunderbird, in both they are generally to fix specific bugs. It's always worth looking at the release notes for any point releases.
comment:5 by , 18 months ago
| Priority: | normal → elevated |
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| Summary: | thunderbird-102.4.1 (wait until December) → thunderbird-102.5.0 |
Now 102.5.0 with security fixes (same as Firefox)
comment:6 by , 18 months ago
| Milestone: | 99-Waiting → 11.3 |
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comment:7 by , 17 months ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
comment:8 by , 17 months ago
Changes
Ctrl+N shortcut to create new contacts from address book restored
Fixes
Account Settings UI did not update to reflect default identity changes
New POP mail notifications were incorrectly shown for messages marked by filters as read or junk
Connecting to an IMAP server configured to use PREAUTH caused Thunderbird to hang
Error responses received in greeting header from NNTP servers did not display error message
News messages sent using "Send Later" failed to send after going back online
"Download/Sync Now..." did not completely sync all newsgroups before going offline
Username was missing from error dialog on failed login to news server
Thunderbird can now fetch RSS channel feeds with incomplete channel URL
Add-on "Contribute" button in Add-ons Manager did not work
Help text for /part Matrix command was incorrect
Invite Attendees dialog did not fetch free/busy info for attendees with encoded characters in their name
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 102.5
Announced
November 15, 2022
Impact
high
Products
Thunderbird
Fixed in
Thunderbird 102.5
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-2022-45403: Service Workers might have learned size of cross-origin media files
Reporter
Anne van Kesteren and Karl Tomlinson
Impact
high
Description
Service Workers should not be able to infer information about opaque cross-origin responses; but timing information for cross-origin media combined with Range requests might have allowed them to determine the presence or length of a media file. References
Bug 1762078
#CVE-2022-45404: Fullscreen notification bypass
Reporter
Irvan Kurniawan
Impact
high
Description
Through a series of popup and window.print() calls, an attacker can cause a window to go fullscreen without the user seeing the notification prompt, resulting in potential user confusion or spoofing attacks. References
Bug 1790815
#CVE-2022-45405: Use-after-free in InputStream implementation
Reporter
Atte Kettunen
Impact
high
Description
Freeing arbitrary nsIInputStream's on a different thread than creation could have led to a use-after-free and potentially exploitable crash. References
Bug 1791314
#CVE-2022-45406: Use-after-free of a JavaScript Realm
Reporter
Samuel Groß
Impact
high
Description
If an out-of-memory condition occurred when creating a JavaScript global, a JavaScript realm may be deleted while references to it lived on in a BaseShape. This could lead to a use-after-free causing a potentially exploitable crash. References
Bug 1791975
#CVE-2022-45408: Fullscreen notification bypass via windowName
Reporter
Irvan Kurniawan
Impact
high
Description
Through a series of popups that reuse windowName, an attacker can cause a window to go fullscreen without the user seeing the notification prompt, resulting in potential user confusion or spoofing attacks. References
Bug 1793829
#CVE-2022-45409: Use-after-free in Garbage Collection
Reporter
Gary Kwong
Impact
high
Description
The garbage collector could have been aborted in several states and zones and GCRuntime::finishCollection may not have been called, leading to a use-after-free and potentially exploitable crash References
Bug 1796901
#CVE-2022-45410: ServiceWorker-intercepted requests bypassed SameSite cookie policy
Reporter
Dongsung Kim
Impact
moderate
Description
When a ServiceWorker intercepted a request with FetchEvent, the origin of the request was lost after the ServiceWorker took ownership of it. This had the effect of negating SameSite cookie protections. This was addressed in the spec and then in browsers. References
Bug 1658869
#CVE-2022-45411: Cross-Site Tracing was possible via non-standard override headers
Reporter
scarlet
Impact
moderate
Description
Cross-Site Tracing occurs when a server will echo a request back via the Trace method, allowing an XSS attack to access to authorization headers and cookies inaccessible to JavaScript (such as cookies protected by HTTPOnly). To mitigate this attack, browsers placed limits on fetch() and XMLHttpRequest; however some webservers have implemented non-standard headers such as X-Http-Method-Override that override the HTTP method, and made this attack possible again. Thunderbird has applied the same mitigations to the use of this and similar headers. References
Bug 1790311
#CVE-2022-45412: Symlinks may resolve to partially uninitialized buffers
Reporter
Armin Ebert
Impact
moderate
Description
When resolving a symlink such as file:///proc/self/fd/1, an error message may be produced where the symlink was resolved to a string containing unitialized memory in the buffer. This bug only affects Thunderbird on Unix-based operated systems (Android, Linux, MacOS). Windows is unaffected. References
Bug 1791029
#CVE-2022-45416: Keystroke Side-Channel Leakage
Reporter
Erik Kraft, Martin Schwarzl, and Andrew McCreight
Impact
moderate
Description
Keyboard events reference strings like "KeyA" that were at fixed, known, and widely-spread addresses. Cache-based timing attacks such as Prime+Probe could have possibly figured out which keys were being pressed. References
Bug 1793676
#CVE-2022-45418: Custom mouse cursor could have been drawn over browser UI
Reporter
Hafiizh
Impact
moderate
Description
If a custom mouse cursor is specified in CSS, under certain circumstances the cursor could have been drawn over the browser UI, resulting in potential user confusion or spoofing attacks. References
Bug 1795815
#CVE-2022-45420: Iframe contents could be rendered outside the iframe
Reporter
Suhwan Song of SNU CompSec Lab
Impact
low
Description
Use tables inside of an iframe, an attacker could have caused iframe contents to be rendered outside the boundaries of the iframe, resulting in potential user confusion or spoofing attacks. References
Bug 1792643
#CVE-2022-45421: Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 102.5
Reporter
Mozilla developers
Impact
high
Description
Mozilla developers Andrew McCreight and Gabriele Svelto reported memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 102.4. 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.
comment:10 by , 17 months ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
SA pushed at commit 919208001b in the www repository.
I'm glad we're on Firefox ESR and not normal Firefox then:
I'm not sure I agree with this stance. Thunderbird is an end-user application which is frequently targeted with exploits because it is a mail client, similar to how Firefox is frequently targeted because it is a web browser.
Thunderbird often releases alongside Firefox ESR as well, primarily containing security fixes.
I think a compromise to not upgrading to every version would be to check the release notes for relevant information, especially for security fixes.
I do not think postponing upgrades to this package is a good idea at all, especially since the version we have in the book right now does not integrate properly with Google Calendar. The events are out of sync on both ends. Note that this version also fixes a problem with the -remote parameter, which fixes breakage with applications such as Libreoffice that might use Thunderbird's calendar integration. Another fix that seems relatively important for college students like myself is "Download requests for remote ICS calendars incorrectly set "Accept" header to text/xml". This explains why 102.x-series versions of Thunderbird don't integrate correctly with our university's Canvas CMS.
Back to the security fix argument, let's take a look at how many CVEs have been found and resolved in Thunderbird since we released 11.2:
102.2.1 - September 1st, 2022
"Thunderbird 102.2.1 contains high-impact security fixes; users are encouraged to update as soon as possible."
Thunderbird 102.3
Thunderbird 102.3.1
Thunderbird 102.4
In total, that amounts to:
... or 19 vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird since we released BLFS 11.2.
Let's at least keep an eye on the release notes please.