CVE-2017-7829

NameCVE-2017-7829
DescriptionIt 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-1223-1, DSA-4075-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
thunderbird (PTS)bullseye1:115.12.0-1~deb11u1fixed
bullseye (security)1:128.4.3esr-1~deb11u1fixed
bookworm1:115.16.0esr-1~deb12u1fixed
bookworm (security)1:128.4.3esr-1~deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie1:128.4.3esr-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
thunderbirdsourcewheezy1:52.5.2-1~deb7u1DLA-1223-1
thunderbirdsourcejessie1:52.5.2-2~deb8u1DSA-4075-1
thunderbirdsourcestretch1:52.5.2-2~deb9u1DSA-4075-1
thunderbirdsource(unstable)1:52.5.2-1

Notes

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-30/#CVE-2017-7829
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