USN-2428-1: thunderbird Ubuntu
Vulnerability summary
USN-2428-1 is a vulnerability in thunderbird Ubuntu with no CVSS score yet.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 5 · Downstream 0 · Related 5Timeline
- 03-12-2014PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 22-04-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
thunderbird vulnerabilities Gary Kwong, Randell Jesup, Nils Ohlmeier, Jesse Ruderman, and Max Jonas Werner discovered multiple memory safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2014-1587) Joe Vennix discovered a crash when using XMLHttpRequest in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2014-1590) Berend-Jan Wever discovered a use-after-free during HTML parsing. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2014-1592) Abhishek Arya discovered a buffer overflow when parsing media content. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2014-1593) Byoungyoung Lee, Chengyu Song, and Taesoo Kim discovered a bad cast in the compositor. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause undefined behaviour, a denial of service via application crash or execute abitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2014-1594)
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Known exploited
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Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Ubuntu1 product
- thunderbird< 1:31.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
1 vendor · 1 product