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openSUSE: 2018:1392-1 Moderate: Enigmail Issues Resolved

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Calendar Grey May 23, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The latest security patch for openSUSE tackles two critical vulnerabilities found in Enigmail, significantly bolstering the system's defense mechanisms.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for enigmail to version 2.0.5 fixes the following issues:

Improvements on previous fixes on CVE-2017-17688, boo#1093151 and

CVE-2017-17689, boo#1093152 (EFAIL):

- do not decrypt MIME parts unnecessarily

- improve Error Message for Missing Message Modification Code

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-2018-495=1

Package List

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

enigmail-2.0.5-12.1

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-2018:1392-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

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