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
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https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-30/ | Vendor Advisory |
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423432 | Exploit Issue Tracking Patch |
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4075 | Third Party Advisory |
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3529-1/ | Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00026.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0061 | Third Party Advisory |
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040123 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102258 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
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Information
Published : 2018-06-11 14:29
Updated : 2018-08-07 05:28
NVD link : CVE-2017-7829
Mitre link : CVE-2017-7829
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CWE
CWE-20
Improper Input Validation
Products Affected
redhat
- enterprise_linux_desktop
- enterprise_linux_aus
- enterprise_linux_workstation
- enterprise_linux_server
- enterprise_linux_eus
mozilla
- thunderbird
canonical
- ubuntu_linux
debian
- debian_linux