usn-3141-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2016-12-01 00:56
Modified
2026-04-22 07:36
Summary
thunderbird vulnerabilities
Details

Christian Holler, Jon Coppeard, Olli Pettay, Ehsan Akhgari, Gary Kwong, Tooru Fujisawa, and Randell Jesup 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-2016-5290)

A same-origin policy bypass was discovered with local HTML files in some circumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2016-5291)

A heap buffer-overflow was discovered in Cairo when processing SVG content. 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-2016-5296)

An error was discovered in argument length checking in Javascript. 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-2016-5297)

A buffer overflow was discovered in nsScriptLoadHandler. 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-2016-9066)

A use-after-free was discovered in SVG animations. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-9079)

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  "aliases": [],
  "details": "Christian Holler, Jon Coppeard, Olli Pettay, Ehsan Akhgari, Gary Kwong,\nTooru Fujisawa, and Randell Jesup discovered multiple memory safety issues\nin Thunderbird. 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-2016-5290)\n\nA same-origin policy bypass was discovered with local HTML files in some\ncircumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain\nsensitive information. (CVE-2016-5291)\n\nA heap buffer-overflow was discovered in Cairo when processing SVG\ncontent. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message,\nan attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service\nvia application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5296)\n\nAn error was discovered in argument length checking in Javascript. 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-2016-5297)\n\nA buffer overflow was discovered in nsScriptLoadHandler. If a user were\ntricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context,\nan attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service\nvia application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-9066)\n\nA use-after-free was discovered in SVG animations. If a user were tricked\nin to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an\nattacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via application\ncrash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-9079)\n",
  "id": "USN-3141-1",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:36:33Z",
  "published": "2016-12-01T00:56:29Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3141-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5290"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5291"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5296"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5297"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9066"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9079"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "summary": "thunderbird vulnerabilities",
  "upstream": [
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5290",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5291",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5296",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5297",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9066",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9079"
  ]
}



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