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. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.5.2.
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-30/
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4075
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3529-1/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00026.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423432
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0061