CVE-2017-7829 Other in Thunderbird

What is CVE-2017-7829?

CVE-2017-7829 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 11 Jun 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-7829?

It affects 8 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Mozilla Thunderbird, Redhat Enterprise Linux Aus, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus and 2 more.

How do I fix CVE-2017-7829?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2017-7829 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-7829 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7829, GHSA-hpvr-62fv-x7x4, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7829.