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openSUSE Security Update : enigmail (openSUSE-2018-495) (EFAIL)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 110068

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

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

Solution

Update the affected enigmail package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1093151

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1093152

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 110068

File Name: openSUSE-2018-495.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/24/2018

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:enigmail, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.0, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 5/23/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-17688, CVE-2017-17689