CVE-2021-29948

Summary

CVECVE-2021-29948
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-06-24 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-06-30 18:28:00 UTC
DescriptionSignatures 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. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.10.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-362

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mozilla Thunderbird All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 78.10 — Mozilla MISC www.mozilla.org
1692899 - (CVE-2021-29948) RNP-01-003 WP3 Thunderbird: Possible race condition when reading from disk MISC bugzilla.mozilla.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159161 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for thunderbird (ELSA-2021-1350)
  • 159166 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for thunderbird (ELSA-2021-1353)
  • 178561 Debian Security Update for thunderbird (DSA 4897-1)
  • 178644 Debian Security Update for thunderbird (DLA 2632-1)
  • 180360 Debian Security Update for thunderbird (CVE-2021-29948)
  • 198415 Ubuntu Security Notification for Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-4995-1)
  • 198424 Ubuntu Security Notification for Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-4995-2)
  • 239261 Red Hat Update for thunderbird (RHSA-2021:1353)
  • 239262 Red Hat Update for thunderbird (RHSA-2021:1352)
  • 239263 Red Hat Update for thunderbird (RHSA-2021:1351)
  • 239264 Red Hat Update for thunderbird (RHSA-2021:1350)
  • 296068 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 34.94.4 Missing (CPUAPR2021)
  • 352368 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for thunderbird: ALAS2-2021-1644
  • 375485 Mozilla Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities (MFSA2021-14)
  • 502381 Alpine Linux Security Update for thunderbird
  • 503632 Alpine Linux Security Update for thunderbird
  • 503634 Alpine Linux Security Update for thunderbird
  • 503650 Alpine Linux Security Update for thunderbird
  • 503669 Alpine Linux Security Update for thunderbird
  • 506260 Alpine Linux Security Update for thunderbird
  • 710019 Gentoo Linux Mozilla Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202104-09)
  • 750235 OpenSUSE Security Update for MozillaThunderbird (openSUSE-SU-2021:0644-1)
  • 940377 AlmaLinux Security Update for thunderbird (ALSA-2021:1353)
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