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Fedora 28 : thunderbird-enigmail (2018-22c1b7e738)

high Nessus Plugin ID 120289

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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-2018-22c1b7e738

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 120289

File Name: fedora_2018-22c1b7e738.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:28, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:thunderbird-enigmail

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/9/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/9/2018

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