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openSUSE: 2019:1421-1 Important: Enigmail Vulnerability Patch

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Calendar Grey May 23, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A fix released for two security flaws in enigmail on openSUSE systems. Enhance your safety by updating without delay.
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:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-495=1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-495=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

enigmail-2.0.5-15.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

enigmail-2.0.5-lp150.2.6.1

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-2018:1393-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 openSUSE Leap 15.0

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