cve-2017-7829
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-06-11 21:00
Modified
2024-08-05 16:19
Severity ?
Summary
It is possible to spoof the sender's email address and display an arbitrary sender address to the email recipient. The real sender's address is not displayed if preceded by a null character in the display string. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.5.2.
References
security@mozilla.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102258Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@mozilla.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040123Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@mozilla.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0061Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423432Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
security@mozilla.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00026.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3529-1/Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4075Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-30/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102258Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040123Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0061Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423432Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00026.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3529-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4075Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-30/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Mozilla Thunderbird Version: unspecified   < 52.5.2
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