Bug 1530195 (CVE-2017-7829)

Summary:	CVE-2017-7829 Mozilla: From address with encoded null character is cut off in message header display
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	cschalle, gecko-bugs-nobody, jhorak, stransky
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Bug Depends On:	1530197, 1530198, 1530199, 1530200
Bug Blocks:	1530196

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2018-01-02 09:01:06 UTC

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.

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2018-01-02 09:01:17 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Sabri Haddouche

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2018-01-02 09:01:25 UTC

External References:

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

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2018-01-08 04:50:05 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2018:0061 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0061