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Fedora 28: 2018-22c1b7e738 Critical: Thunderbird Enigmail Message Issue

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Calendar Grey August 9, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 28 releases a security notice concerning the thunderbird-enigmail upgrade to version 2.0.8 addressing a significant message correction issue.
Update to 2.0.8: * A security issue has been fixed that allows an attacker to prepare a plain, unauthenticated HTML message in a way that it looks like it's signed and/or encrypte...

Summary

Enigmail is an extension to the mail client Mozilla Thunderbird

which allows users to access the authentication and encryption

features provided by GnuPG

Update to 2.0.8: * A security issue has been fixed that allows an attacker

to prepare a plain, unauthenticated HTML message in a way that it looks like

it's signed and/or encrypted. * Changelog:

https://enigmail.net/index.php/en/download/changelog

* Sun Aug 5 2018 Christian Dersch - 2.0.8-1

- new version

* Sat Jul 14 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.0.7-2

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild

* Thu Jun 14 2018 Christian Dersch - 2.0.7-1

- new version

* Mon May 28 2018 Christian Dersch - 2.0.6-1

- new version

* Sat May 19 2018 Christian Dersch - 2.0.4-1

- new version fixing efail vulnerability

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-22c1b7e738' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Change Log

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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 2.0.8
Release: 1.fc28
Summary: Authentication and encryption extension for Mozilla Thunderbird

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