USN-2904-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2904-1

8th March, 2016

thunderbird vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

Ubuntu 15.10
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird.

Software description

thunderbird
– Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client

Details

Karthikeyan Bhargavan and Gaetan Leurent discovered that NSS incorrectly
allowed MD5 to be used for TLS 1.2 connections. If a remote attacker were
able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to
view sensitive information. (CVE-2015-7575)

Yves Younan discovered that graphite2 incorrectly handled certain malformed
fonts. If a user were tricked into 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 arbitary code with the
privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2016-1523)

Bob Clary, Christian Holler, Nils Ohlmeier, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman,
Carsten Book, and Randell Jesup discovered multiple memory safety issues
in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted
website in a browsing context, 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-2016-1930)

Aki Helin discovered a buffer overflow when rendering WebGL 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 with the privileges of the user invoking
Thunderbird. (CVE-2016-1935)