usn-2754-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2015-10-05 14:30
Modified
2026-04-22 07:36
Summary
thunderbird vulnerabilities
Details

Andrew Osmond, Olli Pettay, Andrew Sutherland, Christian Holler, David Major, Andrew McCreight, and Cameron McCormack 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 of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-4500)

Khalil Zhani discovered a buffer overflow when parsing VP9 content in some circumstances. 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 privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-4506)

A use-after-free was discovered when manipulating HTML media content in some circumstances. 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 with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-4509)

Atte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow in the nestegg library when decoding WebM format video in some circumstances. 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 privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-4511)

Ronald Crane reported multiple vulnerabilities. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, 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-2015-4517, CVE-2015-4521, CVE-2015-4522, CVE-2015-7174, CVE-2015-7175, CVE-2015-7176, CVE-2015-7177, CVE-2015-7180)

Mario Gomes discovered that dragging and dropping an image after a redirect exposes the redirected URL to scripts. An attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2015-4519)

Ehsan Akhgari discovered 2 issues with CORS preflight requests. An attacker could potentially exploit these to bypass CORS restrictions. (CVE-2015-4520)

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  "aliases": [],
  "details": "Andrew Osmond, Olli Pettay, Andrew Sutherland, Christian Holler, David\nMajor, Andrew McCreight, and Cameron McCormack discovered multiple memory\nsafety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a\nspecially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit these to\ncause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code\nwith the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-4500)\n\nKhalil Zhani discovered a buffer overflow when parsing VP9 content in some\ncircumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted\nmessage, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of\nservice via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the\nprivileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-4506)\n\nA use-after-free was discovered when manipulating HTML media content in\nsome circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially\ncrafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially\nexploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or\nexecute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking\nThunderbird. (CVE-2015-4509)\n\nAtte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow in the nestegg library when\ndecoding WebM format video in some circumstances. If a user were tricked\nin to opening a specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially\nexploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or\nexecute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking\nThunderbird. (CVE-2015-4511)\n\nRonald Crane reported multiple vulnerabilities. If a user were tricked in\nto opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker\ncould potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via\napplication crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the\nuser invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-4517, CVE-2015-4521, CVE-2015-4522,\nCVE-2015-7174, CVE-2015-7175, CVE-2015-7176, CVE-2015-7177, CVE-2015-7180)\n\nMario Gomes discovered that dragging and dropping an image after a\nredirect exposes the redirected URL to scripts. An attacker could\npotentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2015-4519)\n\nEhsan Akhgari discovered 2 issues with CORS preflight requests. An\nattacker could potentially exploit these to bypass CORS restrictions.\n(CVE-2015-4520)\n",
  "id": "USN-2754-1",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:36:32Z",
  "published": "2015-10-05T14:30:07Z",
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      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2754-1"
    },
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      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4500"
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    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4522"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7174"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
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    },
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7176"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7177"
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    }
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  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "summary": "thunderbird vulnerabilities",
  "upstream": [
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}



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