Bug 1185086 (CVE-2021-29950)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2021-29950: MozillaThunderbird: Logic issue potentially leaves key material unlocked
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	Robert Frohl <rfrohl>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Martin Sirringhaus <martin.sirringhaus>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	smash_bz
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/282416/
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Robert Frohl 2021-04-21 11:40:14 UTC

rh#1951873

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.



External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-17/#CVE-2021-29950

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1951873
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2021-29950

Comment 1 Robert Frohl 2021-04-21 11:42:51 UTC

CVE added after the fact, already fixed in relevant codestreams. Closing

Comment 2 Swamp Workflow Management 2021-06-04 10:27:29 UTC

SUSE-SU-2021:1854-1: An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 1185086,1185633,1186198,1186199
CVE References: CVE-2021-29950,CVE-2021-29951,CVE-2021-29956,CVE-2021-29957
JIRA References: 
Sources used:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15-SP3 (src):    MozillaThunderbird-78.10.2-8.27.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15-SP2 (src):    MozillaThunderbird-78.10.2-8.27.1

NOTE: This line indicates an update has been released for the listed product(s). At times this might be only a partial fix. If you have questions please reach out to maintenance coordination.

Comment 3 Swamp Workflow Management 2021-07-10 22:19:41 UTC

openSUSE-SU-2021:1854-1: An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 1185086,1185633,1186198,1186199
CVE References: CVE-2021-29950,CVE-2021-29951,CVE-2021-29956,CVE-2021-29957
JIRA References: 
Sources used:
openSUSE Leap 15.3 (src):    MozillaThunderbird-78.10.2-8.27.1