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 arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2014-1594).

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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 14.10 : thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-2428-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79716

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