CVE-2017-7829

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.

• CWE-20

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102258Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040123Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0061Third Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423432Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00026.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3529-1/Third Party Advisory
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4075Third Party Advisory
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-30/Vendor Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102258Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040123Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0061Third Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423432Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00026.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3529-1/Third Party Advisory
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4075Third Party Advisory
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-30/Vendor Advisory

Published

Jun 11, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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