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High 1 exploited CVE USN-3141-1 6 CVEs

thunderbird vulnerabilities

Published Dec 1, 2016 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

Christian Holler, Jon Coppeard, Olli Pettay, Ehsan Akhgari, Gary Kwong,
Tooru Fujisawa, and Randell Jesup 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-2016-5290)

A same-origin policy bypass was discovered with local HTML files in some
circumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain
sensitive information. (CVE-2016-5291)

A heap buffer-overflow was discovered in Cairo when processing SVG
content. 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. (CVE-2016-5296)

An error was discovered in argument length checking in Javascript. 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. (CVE-2016-5297)

A buffer overflow was discovered in nsScriptLoadHandler. 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. (CVE-2016-9066)

A use-after-free was discovered in SVG animations. If a user were tricked
in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an
attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via application
crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-9079)

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS thunderbird 1:45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS thunderbird 1:45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Vulnerabilities 6

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5290
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5291
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5296
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5297
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9066
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9079