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Rocky Linux: CVE-2023-3417: thunderbird (Multiple Advisories)

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N)

Published

Jul 24, 2023

Added

Mar 5, 2024

Modified

Mar 31, 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.

Solutions

rocky-upgrade-thunderbirdrocky-upgrade-thunderbird-debuginforocky-upgrade-thunderbird-debugsource

References

CVE-2023-3417
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2023-3417
EUVD-EUVD-2023-44083
https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2023:4497
https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2023:4499
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2023-44083

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