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MFSA2017-30 Thunderbird: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 52.5.2 (CVE-2017-7829)

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MFSA2017-30 Thunderbird: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 52.5.2 (CVE-2017-7829)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
12/22/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/02/2018
Modified
08/09/2018

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-thunderbird-upgrade-52_5_2

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