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openSUSE: 2018:1329-1 Moderate: Enigmail Email Exfiltration Fix

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Calendar Grey May 17, 2018
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The latest Fedora update targets several significant vulnerabilities in Thunderbird, reinforcing the security of email communications and improving verification processes.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for enigmail to version 2.0.4 fixes multiple issues.

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2017-17688: CFB gadget attacks allowed to exfiltrate plaintext out

of encrypted emails. enigmail now fails on GnuPG integrity check

warnings for old Algorithms (bsc#1093151)

- CVE-2017-17689: CBC gadget attacks allows to exfiltrate plaintext out of

encrypted emails (bsc#1093152)

This update also includes new and updated functionality:

- The Encryption and Signing buttons now work for both OpenPGP and S/MIME.

Enigmail will chose between S/MIME or OpenPGP depending on whether the

keys for all recipients are available for the respective standard

- Support for the Autocrypt standard, which is now enabled by default

- Support for Pretty Easy Privacy (p?p)

- Support for Web Key Directory (WKD)

- The message subject can now be encrypted and replaced with a dummy

subject, following the Memory Hole standard forprotected Email Headers -...

Read the Full Advisory

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-470=1

Package List

- SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

enigmail-2.0.4-9.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17688.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17689.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1093151

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1093152

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:1329-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

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