USN-2428-1

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USN-2428-1

Summary: thunderbird vulnerabilities

Details: 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)

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2428-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1587, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1590, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1592, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1593, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1594