vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2023-3417: thunderbird -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N)
Published
Jul 24, 2023
Added
Aug 1, 2023
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Thunderbird allowed the Text Direction Override Unicode Character in filenames. An email attachment could be incorrectly shown as being a document file, while in fact it was an executable file. Newer versions of Thunderbird will strip the character and show the correct file extension. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 115.0.1 and Thunderbird < 102.13.1.

Solution

debian-upgrade-thunderbird
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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