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openSUSE 2018:1706-1 Moderate: Enigmail Spoofing Issues Resolved

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Calendar Grey June 15, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
OpenSUSE has released a security update for Enigmail, addressing email address spoofing vulnerabilities and enhancing the overall security framework. Learn more about the updates
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for enigmail fixes vulnerabilities that allowed spoofing of

e-mail signatures:

- CVE-2018-12019: signature spoofing via specially crafted OpenPGP user

IDs (boo#1097525)

- CVE-2018-12020: signature spoofing via diagnostic output of the original

file name in GnuPG verbose mode (boo#1096745) This mitigation prevents

CVE-2018-12020 from being exploited even if GnuPG is not patched.

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-2018-630=1

Package List

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

enigmail-2.0.7-18.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12019.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12020.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1096745

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1097525

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:1706-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

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