CVE-2023-3417 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package thunderbird (opens in a new tab)
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- published1 Aug 2023
- disclosed24 Jul 2023
Introduced: 24 Jul 2023
CVE-2023-3417 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream thunderbird package and not the thunderbird package as distributed by Ubuntu.
Thunderbird allowed the Text Direction Override Unicode Character in filenames. An email attachment could be incorrectly shown as being a document file, while in fact it was an executable file. Newer versions of Thunderbird will strip the character and show the correct file extension. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 115.0.1 and Thunderbird < 102.13.1.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2023-3417
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1835582
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00032.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5463
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-27/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-28/