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Unscored USN-3073-1 1 CVE

thunderbird vulnerabilities

Published Sep 22, 2016 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

Christian Holler, Carsten Book, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Andrew
McCreight, and Phil Ringnalda 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-2016-2836)

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS thunderbird 1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.4
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS thunderbird 1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2836