RHSA-2021:5055 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: thunderbird security update

Loading…

Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · December 9, 2021

Updated · November 22, 2025

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 91.4.0.

Security Fix(es):

  • Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 95 and Firefox ESR 91.4 (BZ#2030116)

  • Mozilla: URL leakage when navigating while executing asynchronous function (CVE-2021-43536)

  • Mozilla: Heap buffer overflow when using structured clone (CVE-2021-43537)

  • Mozilla: Missing fullscreen and pointer lock notification when requesting both (CVE-2021-43538)

  • Mozilla: GC rooting failure when calling wasm instance methods (CVE-2021-43539)

  • Mozilla: External protocol handler parameters were unescaped (CVE-2021-43541)

  • Mozilla: XMLHttpRequest error codes could have leaked the existence of an external protocol handler (CVE-2021-43542)

  • Mozilla: Bypass of CSP sandbox directive when embedding (CVE-2021-43543)

  • Mozilla: JavaScript unexpectedly enabled for the composition area (CVE-2021-43528)

  • Mozilla: Denial of Service when using the Location API in a loop (CVE-2021-43545)

  • Mozilla: Cursor spoofing could overlay user interface when native cursor is zoomed (CVE-2021-43546)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2021:5055 — Red Hat Security Advisory: thunderbird security update | PulseLinux