CVE-2021-43529

Summary

CVECVE-2021-43529
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-02-16 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-28 13:55:00 UTC
DescriptionThunderbird versions prior to 91.3.0 are vulnerable to the heap overflow described in CVE-2021-43527 when processing S/MIME messages. Thunderbird versions 91.3.0 and later will not call the vulnerable code when processing S/MIME messages that contain certificates with DER-encoded DSA or RSA-PSS signatures.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mozilla Thunderbird All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
1738501 - (CVE-2021-43529) Automatic S/MIME cert import should use additional verification using mozilla::pkix 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

  • 178983 Debian Security Update for thunderbird (DSA 5034-1)
  • 178986 Debian Security Update for thunderbird (DLA 2874-1)
  • 183099 Debian Security Update for thunderbird (CVE-2021-43529)
  • 710585 Gentoo Linux Mozilla Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202208-14)
  • 960744 Rocky Linux Security Update for thunderbird (RLSA-2021:4130)
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