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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-29969: Important: thunderbird security update (ALSA-2021-2883)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-29969: Important: thunderbird security update (ALSA-2021-2883)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
08/05/2021
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
05/04/2022

Description

If Thunderbird was configured to use STARTTLS for an IMAP connection, and an attacker injected IMAP server responses prior to the completion of the STARTTLS handshake, then Thunderbird didn't ignore the injected data. This could have resulted in Thunderbird showing incorrect information, for example the attacker could have tricked Thunderbird to show folders that didn't exist on the IMAP server. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.12.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-thunderbird

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