USN-3141-1: thunderbird Ubuntu

Vulnerability summary

USN-3141-1 is a vulnerability in thunderbird Ubuntu with no CVSS score yet.

Timeline

1. 01-12-2016
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 22-04-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

thunderbird vulnerabilities Christian Holler, Jon Coppeard, Olli Pettay, Ehsan Akhgari, Gary Kwong, Tooru Fujisawa, and Randell Jesup discovered multiple memory safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5290) A same-origin policy bypass was discovered with local HTML files in some circumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2016-5291) A heap buffer-overflow was discovered in Cairo when processing SVG content. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5296) An error was discovered in argument length checking in Javascript. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5297) A buffer overflow was discovered in nsScriptLoadHandler. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-9066) A use-after-free was discovered in SVG animations. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-9079)

No weakness data has been published for this record.