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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2020-12397: Vulnerability in Thunderbird

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2020-12397: Vulnerability in Thunderbird

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
05/22/2020
Created
01/20/2021
Added
01/19/2021
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

By encoding Unicode whitespace characters within the From email header, an attacker can spoof the sender email address that Thunderbird displays. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.8.0.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-mail-thunderbird-68-8-0-11-4-22-0-1-69-2
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-mail-thunderbird-plugin-thunderbird-lightning-68-8-0-11-4-22-0-1-69-2

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