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Mageia 7 MGASA-2021-0067 Critical: KMail Attack Vector and Fix

mageia
Calendar Grey February 4, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Recent updates to the messagelib packages aim to fix a security vulnerability linked to encoded emails in the Mageia environment. Learn more about this exploit's nature
In KDE KMail, an attacker in possession of S/MIME or PGP encrypted emails can wrap them as sub-parts within a crafted multipart email

Summary

In KDE KMail, an attacker in possession of S/MIME or PGP encrypted emails can wrap them as sub-parts within a crafted multipart email. The encrypted part(s) can further be hidden using HTML/CSS or ASCII newline characters. This modified multipart email can be re-sent by the attacker to the intended receiver. If the receiver replies to this (benign looking) email, they unknowingly leak the plaintext of the encrypted message part(s) back to the attacker (CVE-2019-10732).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28260

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- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-10732

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/messagelib-19.04.0-1.1.mga7

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Publication date: 04 Feb 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0067.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-10732

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