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openSUSE Leap 42.3 Security Advisory: 2018:1330-1 Moderate Enigmail Fix

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Calendar Grey May 17, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This patch addresses a couple of significant issues in Enigmail for Fedora, improving both email protection and overall user experience.
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:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

enigmail-2.0.4-12.1

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-2018:1330-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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