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usn-2460-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2015-01-19 17:04
Modified
2026-04-22 07:36
Summary
thunderbird vulnerabilities
Details

Christian Holler and Patrick McManus 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-2014-8634)

Muneaki Nishimura discovered that requests from navigator.sendBeacon() lack an origin header. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct cross-site request forgery (XSRF) attacks. (CVE-2014-8638)

Xiaofeng Zheng discovered that a web proxy returning a 407 response could inject cookies in to the originally requested domain. If a user connected to a malicious web proxy, an attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct session-fixation attacks. (CVE-2014-8639)

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                }
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        "availability": "No subscription required",
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  "details": "Christian Holler and Patrick McManus discovered multiple memory safety\nissues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially\ncrafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially\nexploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or\nexecute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking\nThunderbird. (CVE-2014-8634)\n\nMuneaki Nishimura discovered that requests from navigator.sendBeacon()\nlack an origin header. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially\ncrafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially\nexploit this to conduct cross-site request forgery (XSRF) attacks.\n(CVE-2014-8638)\n\nXiaofeng Zheng discovered that a web proxy returning a 407 response\ncould inject cookies in to the originally requested domain. If a user\nconnected to a malicious web proxy, an attacker could potentially exploit\nthis to conduct session-fixation attacks. (CVE-2014-8639)\n",
  "id": "USN-2460-1",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:36:32Z",
  "published": "2015-01-19T17:04:18Z",
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2460-1"
    },
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      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8634"
    },
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    }
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  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "summary": "thunderbird vulnerabilities",
  "upstream": [
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8634",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8638",
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  ]
}



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