1156729 - Critical Failure With Passwords/Security

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Security, defect)

Description

[Jon Jenkins]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0
Build ID: 20150108202552

Steps to reproduce:

Opened TB, no access to accounts, master password missing, no saved passwords, cant set master password! Something broke in the password handling process. Deleted key3.db/signons.sqlite etc etc still broken.


Actual results:

Cant read saved passwords; cant reset master password; cant access accounts, propagates across installs (its in the profiles):  Error console (repeated for each account):

Timestamp: 21/04/2015 9:06:37 PM
Error: [Exception... "Initialization failed'Initialization failed' when calling method: [nsILoginManagerStorage::init]"  nsresult: "0x8057001e (NS_ERROR_XPC_JS_THREW_STRING)"  location: "JS frame :: resource://gre/components/nsLoginManager.js :: LoginManager.prototype._storage :: line 98"  data: no]
Source File: resource://gre/components/nsLoginManager.js
Line: 98

Timestamp: 21/04/2015 9:06:37 PM
Error: this._storage is null
Source File: resource://gre/components/nsLoginManager.js
Line: 323


Expected results:

Normal behaviour!

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Does https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1049037 help?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(still waiting for more info)