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openSUSE: 2019:1612-1 Important: Enigmail Inline PGP Spoofing

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Calendar Grey June 24, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
openSUSE has released a crucial security patch for Enigmail, tackling a significant vulnerability associated with inline PGP message forgery.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for enigmail fixes the following issues:

enigmail was updated to 2.0.11:

* CVE-2019-12269: Specially crafted inline PGP messages could spoof a

"correctly signed" message (boo#1135855)

enigmail was updated to 2.0.10:

* various bug fixes for configuring and handling encrypted e-mail

* UI fixes for dialogs, messages, and dark Thunderbird themes

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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-2019-1612=1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-1612=1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-1612=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

enigmail-2.0.11-31.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

enigmail-2.0.11-lp151.2.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

enigmail-2.0.11-lp150.31.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-12269.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1135855

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:1612-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 openSUSE Leap 15.1 openSUSE Leap 15.0

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