MGASA-2016-0078

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    MGASA-2016-0078

    Published: 17 Feb 2016Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated thunderbird packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird (CVE-2016-1930, CVE-2016-1935). Multiple security flaws were found in the graphite2 font library bundled with Thunderbird. A web page containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird (CVE-2016-1521, CVE-2016-1522, CVE-2016-1523, CVE-2016-1526). Thunderbird includes a bundled copy of the graphite2 library, which has been updated in Thunderbird 38.6.0.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0078.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17781, http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0057/, http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0058/, http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0059/, http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0060/, http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0061/, http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/02/vulnerability-spotlight-libgraphite.html, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-01/, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-03/, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-14/, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird/, https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0071.html, https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0197.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00105.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: thunderbird

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/thunderbird?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -38.6.0-1.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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