CVE-2021-43529
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-16 00:00
Modified
2024-08-04 03:55
Severity ?
Summary
Thunderbird 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.
References
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2021-43529Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2021-43529Issue Tracking
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