thunderbird-52.4.0

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New minor version.

[Douglas R. Reno]

DJ asked me privately to look into geolocation stuff for these two packages. Since I need them ASAP for my new machine anyway, I'll take these.

[Douglas R. Reno]

Security vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 52.4
ANNOUNCED
October 9, 2017
IMPACT
CRITICAL
PRODUCTS
Thunderbird
FIXED IN
Thunderbird 52.4
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-2017-7793: Use-after-free with Fetch API

REPORTER
Abhishek Arya
IMPACT
HIGH
Description

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in the Fetch API when the worker or the associated window are freed when still in use, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash.

References

Bug 1371889
#CVE-2017-7818: Use-after-free during ARIA array manipulation

REPORTER
Nils
IMPACT
HIGH
Description

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when manipulating arrays of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) elements within containers through the DOM. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.

References

Bug 1363723
#CVE-2017-7819: Use-after-free while resizing images in design mode

REPORTER
Nils
IMPACT
HIGH
Description

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in design mode when image objects are resized if objects referenced during the resizing have been freed from memory. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.

References

Bug 1380292
#CVE-2017-7824: Buffer overflow when drawing and validating elements with ANGLE

REPORTER
Omair, Andre Weissflog
IMPACT
HIGH
Description

A buffer overflow occurs when drawing and validating elements with the ANGLE graphics library, used for WebGL content. This is due to an incorrect value being passed within the library during checks and results in a potentially exploitable crash.

References

Bug 1398381
#CVE-2017-7805: Use-after-free in TLS 1.2 generating handshake hashes

REPORTER
Martin Thomson
IMPACT
HIGH
Description

During TLS 1.2 exchanges, handshake hashes are generated which point to a message buffer. This saved data is used for later messages but in some cases, the handshake transcript can exceed the space available in the current buffer, causing the allocation of a new buffer. This leaves a pointer pointing to the old, freed buffer, resulting in a use-after-free when handshake hashes are then calculated afterwards. This can result in a potentially exploitable crash.

References

Bug 1377618
#CVE-2017-7814: Blob and data URLs bypass phishing and malware protection warnings

REPORTER
François Marier
IMPACT
MODERATE
Description

File downloads encoded with blob: and data: URL elements bypassed normal file download checks though the Phishing and Malware Protection feature and its block lists of suspicious sites and files. This would allow malicious sites to lure users into downloading executables that would otherwise be detected as suspicious.

References

Bug 1376036
#CVE-2017-7825: OS X fonts render some Tibetan and Arabic unicode characters as spaces

REPORTER
Khalil Zhani
IMPACT
MODERATE
Description

Several fonts on OS X display some Tibetan and Arabic characters as whitespace. When used in the addressbar as part of an IDN this can be used for domain name spoofing attacks. 
Note: This attack only affects OS X operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected.

References

Bug 1393624
Bug 1390980
#CVE-2017-7823: CSP sandbox directive did not create a unique origin

REPORTER
Jun Kokatsu
IMPACT
MODERATE
Description

The content security policy (CSP) sandbox directive did not create a unique origin for the document, causing it to behave as if the allow-same-origin keyword were always specified. This could allow a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attack to be launched from unsafe content.

References

Bug 1396320
#CVE-2017-7810: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 56, Firefox ESR 52.4, and Thunderbird 52.4

REPORTER
Mozilla developers and community
IMPACT
CRITICAL
Description

Mozilla developers and community members Christoph Diehl, Jan de Mooij, Jason Kratzer, Randell Jesup, Tom Ritter, Tyson Smith, and Sebastian Hengst reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 55, Firefox ESR 52.3, and Thunderbird 52.3. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.

References

Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 56 and Firefox ESR 52.4

Expect the conclusion of this update in the next 24 hours.

[Douglas R. Reno]

The rest of the change notes:

NEW
In Thunderbird 52 a new behavior was introduced for replies to mailing list posts: "When replying to a mailing list, reply will be sent to address in From header ignoring Reply-to header". A new preference mail.override_list_reply_to allows to restore the previous behavior.

FIXED
Under certain circumstances (image attachment and non-image attachment), attached images were shown truncated in messages stored in IMAP folders not synchronised for offline use.

FIXED
IMAP UIDs > 0x7FFFFFFF not handled properly

FIXED
Various security fixes

[Douglas R. Reno]

Fixed at r19453

First in my large backlog.