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MFSA2021-13 Thunderbird: Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 78.9.1 (CVE-2021-23991)

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MFSA2021-13 Thunderbird: Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 78.9.1 (CVE-2021-23991)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
04/08/2021
Created
04/10/2021
Added
04/09/2021
Modified
07/12/2021

Description

If a Thunderbird user has previously imported Alice's OpenPGP key, and Alice has extended the validity period of her key, but Alice's updated key has not yet been imported, an attacker may send an email containing a crafted version of Alice's key with an invalid subkey, Thunderbird might subsequently attempt to use the invalid subkey, and will fail to send encrypted email to Alice. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.9.1.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-thunderbird-upgrade-78_9_1

References

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