USN-2428-1

Gary Kwong, Randell Jesup, Nils Ohlmeier, Jesse Ruderman, and Max Jonas Werner discovered multiple memory safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message with scripting enabled, 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-2014-1587)

Joe Vennix discovered a crash when using XMLHttpRequest in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2014-1590)

Berend-Jan Wever discovered a use-after-free during HTML parsing. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message with scripting enabled, 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-2014-1592)

Abhishek Arya discovered a buffer overflow when parsing media content. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message with scripting enabled, 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-2014-1593)

Byoungyoung Lee, Chengyu Song, and Taesoo Kim discovered a bad cast in the compositor. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause undefined behaviour, a denial of service via application crash or execute abitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2014-1594)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / thunderbird

Package

Name: thunderbird
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/thunderbird@1:31.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1:31.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Affected versions

1:24.*

1:24.0+build1-0ubuntu1

1:24.0+build1-0ubuntu2

1:24.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.13.10.1

1:24.1.1+build1-0ubuntu1

1:24.2.0+build1-0ubuntu1

1:24.4.0+build1-0ubuntu1

1:24.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

1:24.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

1:31.*

1:31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

1:31.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

1:31.1.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

1:31.2.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "thunderbird",
            "binary_version": "1:31.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "thunderbird-globalmenu",
            "binary_version": "1:31.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "thunderbird-gnome-support",
            "binary_version": "1:31.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "thunderbird-mozsymbols",
            "binary_version": "1:31.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "thunderbird-testsuite",
            "binary_version": "1:31.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xul-ext-calendar-timezones",
            "binary_version": "1:31.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xul-ext-gdata-provider",
            "binary_version": "1:31.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xul-ext-lightning",
            "binary_version": "1:31.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-1587",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-1590",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-1592",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-1593",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-1594",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2428-1.json"