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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-7829: Vulnerability in Thunderbird

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-7829: Vulnerability in Thunderbird

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
02/22/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/22/2018
Modified
02/01/2022

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)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-mail-thunderbird-52-6-0-0-175-3-29-0-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-mail-thunderbird-plugin-thunderbird-lightning-52-6-0-0-175-3-29-0-4-0

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