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Unscored USN-2754-1 14 CVEs

thunderbird vulnerabilities

Published Oct 5, 2015 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

Andrew Osmond, Olli Pettay, Andrew Sutherland, Christian Holler, David
Major, Andrew McCreight, and Cameron McCormack 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 of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-4500)

Khalil Zhani discovered a buffer overflow when parsing VP9 content in some
circumstances. 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
privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-4506)

A use-after-free was discovered when manipulating HTML media content in
some circumstances. 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 with the privileges of the user invoking
Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-4509)

Atte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow in the nestegg library when
decoding WebM format video in some circumstances. 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 privileges of the user invoking
Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-4511)

Ronald Crane reported multiple vulnerabilities. If a user were tricked in
to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, 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-2015-4517, CVE-2015-4521, CVE-2015-4522,
CVE-2015-7174, CVE-2015-7175, CVE-2015-7176, CVE-2015-7177, CVE-2015-7180)

Mario Gomes discovered that dragging and dropping an image after a
redirect exposes the redirected URL to scripts. An attacker could
potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2015-4519)

Ehsan Akhgari discovered 2 issues with CORS preflight requests. An
attacker could potentially exploit these to bypass CORS restrictions.
(CVE-2015-4520)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS thunderbird 1:38.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Vulnerabilities 14

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2015-4500

    Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 3…

    thunderbird firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2015-4506

    Buffer overflow in the vp9_init_context_buffers function in libvpx, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox …

    thunderbird firefox libvpx Debian Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2015-4509

    Use-after-free vulnerability in the HTMLVideoElement interface in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x befo…

    thunderbird firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2015-4511

    Heap-based buffer overflow in the nestegg_track_codec_data function in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x…

    thunderbird firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2015-4517

    NetworkUtils.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 might allow remote attackers to cause …

    thunderbird firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2015-4519

    Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 allow user-assisted remote attackers to bypass intended ac…

    thunderbird firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2015-4520

    Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 allow remote attackers to bypass CORS preflight protection…

    thunderbird firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2015-4521

    The ConvertDialogOptions function in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 might allow remote at…

    thunderbird firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2015-4522

    The nsUnicodeToUTF8::GetMaxLength function in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 might allow …

    thunderbird firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2015-7174

    The nsAttrAndChildArray::GrowBy function in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 might allow re…

    thunderbird firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2015-7175

    The XULContentSinkImpl::AddText function in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 might allow re…

    thunderbird firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2015-7176

    The AnimationThread function in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 uses an incorrect argument…

    thunderbird firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2015-7177

    The InitTextures function in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 might allow remote attackers …

    thunderbird firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2015-7180

    The ReadbackResultWriterD3D11::Run function in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 misinterpre…

    thunderbird firefox Ubuntu

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4500
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4506
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4509
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4511
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4517
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4519
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4520
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4521
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4522
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7174
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7175
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7176
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7177
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7180