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usn-3112-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2016-10-27 22:19
Modified
2026-04-22 07:36
Summary
thunderbird vulnerabilities
Details

Catalin Dumitru discovered that URLs of resources loaded after a navigation start could be leaked to the following page via the Resource Timing API. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2016-5250)

Christoph Diehl, Andrew McCreight, Dan Minor, Byron Campen, Jon Coppeard, Steve Fink, Tyson Smith, and Carsten Book 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-2016-5257)

Atte Kettunen discovered a heap buffer overflow during text conversion with some unicode characters. 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. (CVE-2016-5270)

Abhishek Arya discovered a bad cast when processing layout with input elements 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. (CVE-2016-5272)

A use-after-free was discovered in web animations during restyling. 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. (CVE-2016-5274)

A use-after-free was discovered in accessibility. 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. (CVE-2016-5276)

A use-after-free was discovered in web animations when destroying a timeline. 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. (CVE-2016-5277)

A buffer overflow was discovered when encoding image frames to images 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. (CVE-2016-5278)

Mei Wang discovered a use-after-free when changing text direction. 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. (CVE-2016-5280)

Brian Carpenter discovered a use-after-free when manipulating SVG 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. (CVE-2016-5281)

An issue was discovered with the preloaded Public Key Pinning (HPKP). If a machine-in-the-middle (MITM) attacker was able to obtain a fraudulent certificate for a Mozilla site, they could exploit this by providing malicious addon updates. (CVE-2016-5284)

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  "aliases": [],
  "details": "Catalin Dumitru discovered that URLs of resources loaded after a\nnavigation start could be leaked to the following page via the Resource\nTiming API. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted\nwebsite in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit this\nto obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2016-5250)\n\nChristoph Diehl, Andrew McCreight, Dan Minor, Byron Campen, Jon Coppeard,\nSteve Fink, Tyson Smith, and Carsten Book 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\ncode. (CVE-2016-5257)\n\nAtte Kettunen discovered a heap buffer overflow during text conversion\nwith some unicode characters. If a user were tricked in to opening a\nspecially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit this to\ncause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary\ncode. (CVE-2016-5270)\n\nAbhishek Arya discovered a bad cast when processing layout with input\nelements in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a\nspecially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could\npotentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application\ncrash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5272)\n\nA use-after-free was discovered in web animations during restyling. If a\nuser were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing\ncontext, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of\nservice via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5274)\n\nA use-after-free was discovered in accessibility. If a user were tricked\nin to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an\nattacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via\napplication crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5276)\n\nA use-after-free was discovered in web animations when destroying a\ntimeline. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted\nwebsite in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit this\nto cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary\ncode. (CVE-2016-5277)\n\nA buffer overflow was discovered when encoding image frames to images in\nsome circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially\ncrafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a\ndenial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code.\n(CVE-2016-5278)\n\nMei Wang discovered a use-after-free when changing text direction. If a\nuser were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing\ncontext, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of\nservice via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5280)\n\nBrian Carpenter discovered a use-after-free when manipulating SVG content\nin some 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. (CVE-2016-5281)\n\nAn issue was discovered with the preloaded Public Key Pinning (HPKP). If\na machine-in-the-middle (MITM) attacker was able to obtain a fraudulent\ncertificate for a Mozilla site, they could exploit this by providing\nmalicious addon updates. (CVE-2016-5284)\n",
  "id": "USN-3112-1",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:36:33Z",
  "published": "2016-10-27T22:19:12Z",
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      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3112-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5250"
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    {
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      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5257"
    },
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  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "summary": "thunderbird vulnerabilities",
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    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5257",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5270",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5272",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5274",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5276",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5277",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5278",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5280",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5281",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5284"
  ]
}



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