CVE-2018-5170

Es posible falsificar el nombre de archivo de un archivo adjunto y mostrar un nombre de archivo adjunto arbitrario. Esto podría llevar a un usuario a abrir un archivo adjunto remoto que es un tipo de archivo diferente al esperado. Esta vulnerabilidad afecta a las versiones anteriores a la 52.8 de Thunderbird ESR y las versiones anteriores a la 52.8 de Thunderbird.

Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, install lightweight themes without user interaction, or execute arbitrary code. An issue was discovered when processing message headers in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application hang. Various other issues were also addressed.