Bug 1093972 (CVE-2018-5170) - VUL-0: CVE-2018-5170: MozillaThunderbird: Filename spoofing for external attachments
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2018-5170: MozillaThunderbird: Filename spoofing for external atta...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2018-5170
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P3 - Medium : Normal
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Assignee: Security Team bot
QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/206175/
Whiteboard: CVSSv3:RedHat:CVE-2018-5170:4.2:(AV:...
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Blocks: 1092548
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Reported: 2018-05-19 07:32 UTC by Andreas Stieger
Modified: 2019-05-01 14:16 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Found By: Security Response Team
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Description Andreas Stieger 2018-05-19 07:32:36 UTC 
It is possible to spoof the filename of an attachment and display an arbitrary attachment name. This could lead to a user opening a remote attachment which is a different file type than expected.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2018-5170
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411732
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-13/#CVE-2018-5170
Comment 2 Andreas Stieger 2018-06-03 16:00:19 UTC 
SLE 15 and Leap are current/fix with this. Resolving.