#9630: thunderbird-52.3.0
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Reporter: renodr | Owner: renodr
Type: enhancement | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.1
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution:
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Comment (by renodr):
{{{
What’s New
Fixed
Various security fixes
Fixed
Large attachments taking a long time to open under some circumstances
Fixed
No authorisation prompt displayed when inserting image into email body
although image URL requires authentication
Fixed
Selected text from another message sometimes included in a reply
Fixed
Inline images not scaled to fit when printing
Fixed
Message disposition flag (replied / forwarded) lost when reply or
forwarded message was stored as draft and draft was sent later
Fixed
Deleting message from the POP3 server not working when maildir storage
was used
Fixed
Unwanted inline images shown in rogue SPAM messages
Known Issues
unresolved
Multiple requests for master password when GMail OAuth2 is enabled
unresolved
On Windows, "Send to > Mail recipient" does not work. Workaround:
Install the Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 redistributable runtime library
or the Universal C Runtime for Windows Server.
}}}
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Security vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 52.3
Announced
August 18, 2017
Impact
critical
Products
Thunderbird
Fixed in
Thunderbird 52.3
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-2017-7800: Use-after-free in WebSockets during disconnection
Reporter
Looben Yang
Impact
critical
Description
A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in WebSockets when the object
holding the connection is freed before the disconnection operation is
finished. This results in an exploitable crash.
References
Bug 1374047
#CVE-2017-7801: Use-after-free with marquee during window resizing
Reporter
Nils
Impact
critical
Description
A use-after-free vulnerability can occur while re-computing layout for a
marquee element during window resizing where the updated style object is
freed while still in use. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.
References
Bug 1371259
#CVE-2017-7809: Use-after-free while deleting attached editor DOM node
Reporter
Nils
Impact
high
Description
A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when an editor DOM node is
deleted prematurely during tree traversal while still bound to the
document. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.
References
Bug 1380284
#CVE-2017-7784: Use-after-free with image observers
Reporter
Nils
Impact
high
Description
A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when reading an image observer
during frame reconstruction after the observer has been freed. This
results in a potentially exploitable crash.
References
Bug 1376087
#CVE-2017-7802: Use-after-free resizing image elements
Reporter
Nils
Impact
high
Description
A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when manipulating the DOM during
the resize event of an image element. If these elements have been freed
due to a lack of strong references, a potentially exploitable crash may
occur when the freed elements are accessed.
References
Bug 1378147
#CVE-2017-7785: Buffer overflow manipulating ARIA attributes in DOM
Reporter
Nils
Impact
high
Description
A buffer overflow can occur when manipulating Accessible Rich Internet
Applications (ARIA) attributes within the DOM. This results in a
potentially exploitable crash.
References
Bug 1356985
#CVE-2017-7786: Buffer overflow while painting non-displayable SVG
Reporter
Nils
Impact
high
Description
A buffer overflow can occur when the image renderer attempts to paint non-
displayable SVG elements. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.
References
Bug 1365189
#CVE-2017-7753: Out-of-bounds read with cached style data and pseudo-
elements
Reporter
SkyLined
Impact
high
Description
An out-of-bounds read occurs when applying style rules to pseudo-elements,
such as ::first-line, using cached style data.
References
Bug 1353312
#CVE-2017-7787: Same-origin policy bypass with iframes through page
reloads
Reporter
Oliver Wagner
Impact
high
Description
Same-origin policy protections can be bypassed on pages with embedded
iframes during page reloads, allowing the iframes to access content on the
top level page, leading to information disclosure.
References
Bug 1322896
#CVE-2017-7807: Domain hijacking through AppCache fallback
Reporter
Mathias Karlsson
Impact
high
Description
A mechanism that uses AppCache to hijack a URL in a domain using fallback
by serving the files from a sub-path on the domain. This has been
addressed by requiring fallback files be inside the manifest directory.
References
Bug 1376459
#CVE-2017-7792: Buffer overflow viewing certificates with an extremely
long OID
Reporter
Fraser Tweedale
Impact
high
Description
A buffer overflow will occur when viewing a certificate in the certificate
manager if the certificate has an extremely long object identifier (OID).
This results in a potentially exploitable crash.
References
Bug 1368652
#CVE-2017-7804: Memory protection bypass through WindowsDllDetourPatcher
Reporter
Stephen Fewer
Impact
high
Description
The destructor function for the WindowsDllDetourPatcher class can be re-
purposed by malicious code in concert with another vulnerability to write
arbitrary data to an attacker controlled location in memory. This can be
used to bypass existing memory protections in this situation.
Note: This attack only affects Windows operating systems. Other operating
systems are not affected.
References
Bug 1372849
#CVE-2017-7791: Spoofing following page navigation with data: protocol and
modal alerts
Reporter
Jose María Acuña
Impact
moderate
Description
On pages containing an iframe, the data: protocol can be used to create a
modal alert that will render over arbitrary domains following page
navigation, spoofing of the origin of the modal alert from the iframe
content.
References
Bug 1365875
#CVE-2017-7782: WindowsDllDetourPatcher allocates memory without DEP
protections
Reporter
Arthur Edelstein
Impact
moderate
Description
An error in the WindowsDllDetourPatcher where a RWX ("Read/Write/Execute")
4k block is allocated but never protected, violating DEP protections.
Note: This attack only affects Windows operating systems. Other operating
systems are not affected.
References
Bug 1344034
#CVE-2017-7803: CSP containing 'sandbox' improperly applied
Reporter
Rhys Enniks
Impact
moderate
Description
When a page’s content security policy (CSP) header contains a sandbox
directive, other directives are ignored. This results in the incorrect
enforcement of CSP.
References
Bug 1377426
#CVE-2017-7779: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 55, Firefox ESR 52.3,
and Thunderbird 52.3
Reporter
Mozilla developers and community
Impact
critical
Description
Mozilla developers and community members Masayuki Nakano, Gary Kwong,
Ronald Crane, Andrew McCreight, Tyson Smith, Bevis Tseng, Christian
Holler, Bryce Van Dyk, Dragana Damjanovic, Kartikaya Gupta, Philipp,
Tristan Bourvon, and Andi-Bogdan Postelnicu reported memory safety bugs
present in Firefox 54, Firefox ESR 52.2, and Thunderbird 52.2. 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 55, Firefox ESR 52.3, and
Thunderbird 52.3
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