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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2819-1

Posted Dec 1, 2015

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2819-1 - Christian Holler, David Major, Jesse Ruderman, Tyson Smith, Boris Zbarsky, Randell Jesup, Olli Pettay, Karl Tomlinson, Jeff Walden, and Gary Kwong 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. Tyson Smith and David Keeler discovered a use-after-poison and buffer overflow in NSS. 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. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, overflow, arbitrary

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2015-4513, CVE-2015-7181, CVE-2015-7182, CVE-2015-7183, CVE-2015-7188, CVE-2015-7189, CVE-2015-7193, CVE-2015-7194, CVE-2015-7197, CVE-2015-7198, CVE-2015-7199, CVE-2015-7200

SHA-256 | a311c779f9fd27a3a7bb5fd804f6f177902aee369fc6236ab5b3d629b731ef65

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