Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-23991  

A security issue was found in Thunderbird before version 78.9.1. If a Thunderbird user has previously imported Alice's OpenPGP key, and Alice has extended the validity period of her key, but Alice's updated key has not yet been imported, an attacker may send an email containing a crafted version of Alice's key with an invalid subkey, Thunderbird might subsequently attempt to use the invalid subkey, and will fail to send encrypted email to Alice.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Denial of service

Description

A security issue was found in Thunderbird before version 78.9.1. If a Thunderbird user has previously imported Alice's OpenPGP key, and Alice has extended the validity period of her key, but Alice's updated key has not yet been imported, an attacker may send an email containing a crafted version of Alice's key with an invalid subkey, Thunderbird might subsequently attempt to use the invalid subkey, and will fail to send encrypted email to Alice.

AVG-1790 thunderbird 78.9.0-1 Medium Vulnerable

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-13/#CVE-2021-23991
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1673240