USN-2712-1

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)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / thunderbird

Package

Name: thunderbird
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/thunderbird@1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Affected versions

1:24.*

1:24.0+build1-0ubuntu1

1:24.0+build1-0ubuntu2

1:24.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.13.10.1

1:24.1.1+build1-0ubuntu1

1:24.2.0+build1-0ubuntu1

1:24.4.0+build1-0ubuntu1

1:24.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

1:24.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

1:31.*

1:31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

1:31.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

1:31.1.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

1:31.2.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

1:31.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

1:31.4.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

1:31.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

1:31.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

1:31.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

1:31.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "thunderbird",
            "binary_version": "1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "thunderbird-dev",
            "binary_version": "1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "thunderbird-globalmenu",
            "binary_version": "1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "thunderbird-gnome-support",
            "binary_version": "1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "thunderbird-mozsymbols",
            "binary_version": "1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "thunderbird-testsuite",
            "binary_version": "1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xul-ext-calendar-timezones",
            "binary_version": "1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xul-ext-gdata-provider",
            "binary_version": "1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xul-ext-lightning",
            "binary_version": "1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2015-4473"
        },
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2015-4487"
        },
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2015-4488"
        },
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2015-4489"
        },
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2015-4491"
        }
    ]
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2712-1.json"