Use After Free Affecting thunderbird package, versions <0:38.3.0-1.el7_1


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
21.48% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-THUNDERBIRD-4562885
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed22 Sept 2015

Introduced: 22 Sep 2015

CVE-2015-4509  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 thunderbird to version 0:38.3.0-1.el7_1 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2015:1852.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream thunderbird package and not the thunderbird package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Use-after-free vulnerability in the HTMLVideoElement interface in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted JavaScript code that modifies the URI table of a media element, aka ZDI-CAN-3176.

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