usn-3073-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2016-09-22 16:57
Modified
2026-04-22 07:36
Summary
thunderbird vulnerabilities
Details
Christian Holler, Carsten Book, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Andrew McCreight, and Phil Ringnalda 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-2016-2836)
References
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"aliases": [],
"details": "Christian Holler, Carsten Book, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Andrew\nMcCreight, and Phil Ringnalda discovered multiple memory safety issues in\nThunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted\nmessage, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of\nservice via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2836)\n",
"id": "USN-3073-1",
"modified": "2026-04-22T07:36:33Z",
"published": "2016-09-22T16:57:54Z",
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"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3073-1"
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}
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