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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: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/24/2018

Updated: 10/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-17689

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/23/2018

Reference Information

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