Vulnerability CVE-2023-3417


Published: 2023-07-24

Description:
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.

 References:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1835582
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-27/

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