Bug 1530195 – CVE-2017-7829 Mozilla: From address with encoded null character is cut off in message header display

Bugzilla will be upgraded to version 5.0. The upgrade date is tentatively scheduled for 2 December 2018, pending final testing and feedback.

Bug 1530195 - (CVE-2017-7829) CVE-2017-7829 Mozilla: From address with encoded null character is cut off in message header display

Summary:	CVE-2017-7829 Mozilla: From address with encoded null character is cut off in...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2017-7829

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
QA Contact:
Docs Contact:

URL:
Whiteboard:	impact=low,public=20121222,reported=2...
Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1530197 1530198 1530199 1530200
Blocks:	1530196
	Show dependency tree / graph

Reported:	2018-01-02 04:01 EST by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2018-01-07 23:58 EST (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

See Also:
Fixed In Version:
Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:
Story Points:	---
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed:	2018-01-07 23:58:50 EST
Type:	---
Regression:	---
Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---
CRM:
Verified Versions:
Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---
RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---

Attachments	(Terms of Use)
Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

External Trackers
Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:0061	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: thunderbird security update	2018-01-08 04:49:21 EST

Groups: None (edit)

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2018-01-02 04:01:06 EST

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 04:01:17 EST

Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Sabri Haddouche

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2018-01-02 04:01:25 EST

External References:

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

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2018-01-07 23:50:05 EST

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

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.