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Fedora 27 : thunderbird-enigmail (2018-eacf5a9ce8)

high Nessus Plugin ID 111718

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to 2.0.8 :

 - A security issue has been fixed that allows an attacker to prepare a plain, unauthenticated HTML message in a way that it looks like it's signed and/or encrypted.

 - Changelog:
 https://enigmail.net/index.php/en/download/changelog

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected thunderbird-enigmail package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-eacf5a9ce8

https://enigmail.net/index.php/en/download/changelog

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 111718

File Name: fedora_2018-eacf5a9ce8.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/15/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:thunderbird-enigmail, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/14/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/14/2018

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