USN-2712-1

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2712-1
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2712-1.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/USN-2712-1
Upstream
Related
Published
2015-08-25T10:02:34.388572Z
Modified
2025-07-16T08:51:56.829878Z
Summary
thunderbird vulnerabilities
Details

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

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