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Red Hat: CVE-2021-29950: CVE-2021-29950 Mozilla: Logic issue potentially leaves key material unlocked (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2021-29950: CVE-2021-29950 Mozilla: Logic issue potentially leaves key material unlocked (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
04/14/2021
Created
04/28/2021
Added
04/28/2021
Modified
12/15/2023

Description

Thunderbird unprotects a secret OpenPGP key prior to using it for a decryption, signing or key import task. If the task runs into a failure, the secret key may remain in memory in its unprotected state. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.8.1.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debugsource

References

  • CVE-2021-29950
  • RHSA-2021:1190
  • RHSA-2021:1192
  • RHSA-2021:1193
  • RHSA-2021:1201

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