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Unscored USN-2712-1 5 CVEs

thunderbird vulnerabilities

Published Aug 25, 2015 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, and Byron Campen 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
with the privileges ofthe user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-4473)

Ronald Crane reported 3 security issues. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially
exploit these, in combination with another security vulnerability, to
cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary
code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-4487,
CVE-2015-4488, CVE-2015-4489)

Gustavo Grieco discovered a heap overflow in gdk-pixbuf. 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 with the priviliges of the user invoking
Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-4491)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS thunderbird 1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Vulnerabilities 5

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4473
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4487
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4488
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4489
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4491