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openSUSE Security Update : enigmail (openSUSE-2018-630)

high Nessus Plugin ID 110586

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for enigmail fixes vulnerabilities that allowed spoofing of e-mail signatures :

 - CVE-2018-12019: signature spoofing via specially crafted OpenPGP user IDs (boo#1097525)

 - CVE-2018-12020: signature spoofing via diagnostic output of the original file name in GnuPG verbose mode (boo#1096745) This mitigation prevents CVE-2018-12020 from being exploited even if GnuPG is not patched.

Solution

Update the affected enigmail package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1096745

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1097525

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 110586

File Name: openSUSE-2018-630.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/18/2018

Updated: 9/20/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12020

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/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/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/15/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12019, CVE-2018-12020

IAVA: 2018-A-0193