USN-2250-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1533)
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2014-06-19 11:22 – Updated: 2026-04-22 07:36 – Source websiteGary Kwong, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Hannes Verschore, Jan de Mooij, Ryan VanderMeulen, Jeff Walden and Kyle Huey discovered multiple memory safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message with scripting enabled, 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-2014-1533)
Abhishek Arya discovered multiple use-after-free and out-of-bounds read issues in Thunderbird. If a user had enabled scripting, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the priviliges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2014-1538)
A use-after-free was discovered in the SMIL animation controller. If a user had enabled scripting, 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-2014-1541)
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"details": "Gary Kwong, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Hannes Verschore, Jan de\nMooij, Ryan VanderMeulen, Jeff Walden and Kyle Huey discovered multiple\nmemory safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening\na specially crafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could\npotentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application\ncrash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking\nThunderbird. (CVE-2014-1533)\n\nAbhishek Arya discovered multiple use-after-free and out-of-bounds read\nissues in Thunderbird. If a user had enabled scripting, an attacker could\npotentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application\ncrash or execute arbitrary code with the priviliges of the user invoking\nThunderbird. (CVE-2014-1538)\n\nA use-after-free was discovered in the SMIL animation controller. If a\nuser had enabled scripting, an attacker could potentially exploit this\nto cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary\ncode with the priviliges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2014-1541)\n",
"id": "USN-2250-1",
"modified": "2026-04-22T07:36:31Z",
"published": "2014-06-19T11:22:36Z",
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