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openSUSE Security Update : claws-mail (openSUSE-2020-1822)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 142560
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The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.Description
This update for claws-mail fixes the following issues :- Additional cleanup of the template handling
claws-mail was updated to 3.17.8 (boo#1177967)
- Shielded template's |program() and |attach_program() so that the command-line that is executed does not allow sequencing such as with && || ;, preventing possible execution of nasty, or at least unexpected, commands
- bug fixes: claws#4376
- updated English, French, and Spanish manuals
- Update to 3.17.7
- Image Viewer: Image attachments, when displayed, are now resized to fit the available width rather than the available height.
- -d is now an alias to --debug.
- Libravatar plugin: New styles supported: Robohash and Pagan.
- SpamAssassin plugin: The 'Maximum size' option now matches SpamAssassin's maximum; it can now handle messages up to 256MB.
- LiteHTML viewer plugin: The UI is now translatable. Bug fixes :
- bug 4313, 'Recursion stack overflow with rebuilding folder tree'
- bug 4372, '[pl_PL] Crash after 'Send later' without recipient and then 'Close''
- bug 4373, 'attach mailto URI double free'
- bug 4374, 'insert mailto URI misses checks'
- bug 4384, 'U+00AD (soft hyphen) changed to space in Subject'
- bug 4386, 'Allow Sieve config without userid without warning'
- Add missing SSL settings when cloning accounts.
- Parsing of command-line arguments.
- PGP Core plugin: fix segv in address completion with a keyring.
- Libravatar plugin: fixes to image display.
- Disable python-gtk plugin on suse_version > 1500: still relying on python2, which is EOL.
- Update to 3.17.6 :
- It is now possible to 'Inherit Folder properties and processing rules from parent folder' when creating new folders with the move message and copy message dialogues.
- A Phishing warning is now shown when copying a phishing URL, (in addition to clicking a phishing URL).
- The progress window when importing an mbox file is now more responsive.
- A warning dialogue is shown if the selected privacy system is 'None' and automatic signing amd/or encrypting is enabled.
- Python plugin: pkgconfig is now used to check for python2. This enables the Python plugin (which uses python2) to be built on newer systems which have both python2 and python3. Bug fixes :
- bug 3922, 'minimize to tray on startup not working'
- bug 4220, 'generates files in cache without content'
- bug 4325, 'Following redirects when retrieving image'
- bug 4342, 'Import mbox file command doesn't work twice on a row'
- fix STARTTLS protocol violation
- fix initial debug line
- fix fat-fingered crash when v (hiding msgview) is pressed just before c (check signature)
- fix non-translation of some Templates strings
- Update to 3.17.5
+ Inline Git patches now have colour syntax highlighting The colours of these, and patch attachments, are configurable on the 'Other' tab of the Display/Colors page of the general preferences.
+ The previously hidden preference, 'summary_from_show', is now configurable within the UI, on the 'Message List' tab of the Display/Summaries page of the general preferences, 'Displayed in From column [ ]'.
+ 'Re-edit' has been added to the message context menu when in the Drafts folder.
+ Additional Date header formats are supported :
- weekday, month, day, hh, mm, ss, year, zone
- weekday, month, day, hh, mm, ss, year
+ LiteHtml viewer plugin: scrolling with the keyboard has been implemented.
+ The included tools/scripts have been updated :
- eud2gc.py converted to Python 3
- tbird2claws.py converted to Python 3
- tbird2claws.py converted to Python 3
- google_search.pl has been replaced with ddg_search.pl (that is, duckduckgo.com instead of google.com)
- fix_date.sh and its documentation have been updated
- multiwebsearch.pl 'fm' (freshmeat.net) has been removed;
'google' has been replaced by 'ddg'
- the outdated OOo2claws-mail.pl script has been removed
+ Updated manuals
+ Updated translations: British English, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
+ bug fixes: claws#2131, claws#4237, claws#4239, claws#4248, claws#4253, claws#4257, claws#4277, claws#4278, claws#4305
+ Misc bugs fixed :
- Fix crash in litehtml_viewer when tag has no href
- removed 'The following file has been attached...' dialogue
- MBOX import: give a better estimation of the time left and grey out widgets while importing
- Fixed 'vcard.c:238:2: warning: ‘strncpy’
output truncate before terminating nul copying as many bytes from a string as its length'
- RSSyl: Fix handling deleted feed items where modified and published dates do not match
- fix bolding of target folder
- when creating a new account, don't pre-fill data from the default account
- respect 'default selection' settings when moving a msg with manual filtering
- Fix printing of empty pages when the selected part is rendered with a plugin not implementing print
- Addressbook folder selection dialogs: make sure folder list is sorted and apply global prefs to get stripes in lists.
- when user cancels the GPG signing passphrase dialogue, don't bother the user with an 'error' dialogue
- Fix imap keyword search. Libetpan assumes keyword search is a MUST but RFC states it is a MAY. Fix advanced search on MS Exchange
- fix SHIFT+SPACE in msg list, moving in reverse
- revert pasting images as attachments
- Fix help about command-line arguments that require a parameter.
- Printing: only print as plain text if the part is of type text
- fix a segfault with default info icon when trying to print a non-text part.
- Add a test on build-time libetpan version to require the proper version at run-time (boo#1157594)
- Move 'Mark all read/unread' menu entries where they belong. remove-MarkAll-from-message-menu.patch (claws#4278) add-MarkAll-to-folder-menu.patch (claws#4278)
- Make litehtml plugin build on Tumbleweed.
- Update to 3.17.4 :
- New HTML viewer plugin: Litehtml viewer
- Added option 'Enable keyboard shortcuts' to the 'Keyboard shortcuts' frame on /Configuration/Preferences/Other/Miscellaneous
- Compose: implemented copying of attached images to clipboard
- Compose: images and text/uri-list (files) can now be attached by pasting into the Compose window
- Python plugin: window sizes are now remembered for the Python console, the 'Open URLs' and the 'Set mailbox order' windows.
- Fancy plugin: the download-link feature now follows redirections
- MBOX export: the Enter key in the dialogue now starts the export
- The date (ISO format) has been added to log timestamps
- Update translations
- bug 1920, 'No automatic NNTP filtering'
- bug 2045, 'address book blocks focus on email window'
- bug 2131, 'Focus stealing after mail check'
- bug 2627, 'Filtering does not work on NNTP'
- bug 3070, 'misbehaving text wrapping when URL chars are present'
- bug 3838, 'Canceled right-click on message list leaves UI in inconsistent state'
- bug 3977, 'Fix crashes when some external APIs fail'
- bug 3979, 'Hang (with killing needed) during action which extracts attachments'
- bug 4029, 'segfault after deleting message in a window'
- bug 4031, 'fingerprint in SSL/TLS certificates for ...
(regress error)'
- bug 4037, 'Fix some small issues'
- bug 4142, 'Translation error on Russian'
- bug 4145, 'proxy server for sending doesn't work'
- bug 4155, 'remember directory of last saving'
- bug 4166, 'corrupted double-linked list'
- bug 4167, 'Max line length exceeded when forwarding mail'
- bug 4188, 'STL file is sent not as an attachment but as its base64 representation in plaintext'
- CID 1442278, 'impossible to trigger buffer overflow'
- Make key accelerators from menu work in addressbook window
- save checkbox choices of display/summaries/defaults prefs
- Do not throw an error when cancelling 'Save email as...'.
- occasional crash on drag'n'drop of msgs
- possible stack overflow in vcalendar's Curl data handler
- crash when LDAP address source is defined in index, but
- support is disabled
- crash in Fancy plugin if one of the MIME parts has no
- -ID
- a few small memory leaks in scan_mailto_url()
- configure script for rare cases where python is not installed
- incorrect charset conversion in sc_html_read_line().
- markup in 'key not fully trusted' warning in pgpcore
- use after free in rare code path in rssyl_subscribe()
- several memory leaks
- verify_folderlist_xml() for fresh starts
- printf formats for size_t and goffset arguments.
- alertpanel API use in win32 part of mimeview.c
- pid handling in debug output of kill_children_cb()
- incorrect pointer arithmetic in w32_filesel.c
Solution
Update the affected claws-mail packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 142560
File Name: openSUSE-2020-1822.nasl
Version: 1.3
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 11/6/2020
Updated: 2/9/2024
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 5.5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-15917
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 9.8
Temporal Score: 8.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:claws-mail-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:claws-mail, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.2, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:claws-mail-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:claws-mail-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:claws-mail-debugsource
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 11/2/2020
Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/23/2020
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2020-15917