CVE-2021-29948: Race Condition
First published: Mon Apr 19 2021(Updated: )
Signatures are written to disk before and read during verification, which might be subject to a race condition when a malicious local process or user is replacing the file.
Credit: security@mozilla.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Mozilla Thunderbird | <78.10 | 78.10 |
| <78.10 | 78.10 | |
| Mozilla Thunderbird | <78.10 | |
| debian/thunderbird | 1:91.12.0-1~deb10u1 1:115.3.1-1~deb10u1 1:102.13.1-1~deb11u1 1:115.3.1-1~deb11u1 1:102.15.1-1~deb12u1 1:115.3.1-1~deb12u1 1:115.3.1-1 |
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Reference Links
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1692899
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-14/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-14/
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-14/#CVE-2021-29948
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-29948
Peer vulnerabilities
(Found alongside the following vulnerabilities)
- collector/security-tracker-debian
- collector/nvd-index
- collector/mozilla-advisory
- vendor/mozilla
- vendor/thunderbird
- agent/type
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/softwarecombine
- source/Mozilla
- agent/software-canonical-lookup
- agent/references
- agent/severity
- agent/remedy
- agent/weakness
- agent/author
- agent/tags
- agent/event
- agent/description
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- package-manager/debian
- canonical/mozilla thunderbird