Security fix for CVE-2016-7968

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Security fix for CVE-2017-9604

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The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - kmail: Send Later with Delay bypasses OpenPGP (CVE-2017-9604)

  - KDE KMail does not encrypt attachments in emails when automatic encryption is enabled, which allows     remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network. (CVE-2014-8878)

  - The S/MIME specification allows a Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) malleability-gadget attack that can     indirectly lead to plaintext exfiltration, aka EFAIL. (CVE-2017-17689)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

CVE-2017-9604 kmail: Send Later with Delay bypasses OpenPGP

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Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for kdepim4 fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2017-9604: The kmail 'send later' function does not     have 'sign/encryption' action ensured. (boo#1044210)

The package kdepim-addons was updated to conflict with 4.x based akonadi package to prevent file conflicts. (boo#1045936)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - kmail: Send Later with Delay bypasses OpenPGP (CVE-2017-9604)

  - KDE KMail does not encrypt attachments in emails when automatic encryption is enabled, which allows     remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network. (CVE-2014-8878)

  - The S/MIME specification allows a Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) malleability-gadget attack that can     indirectly lead to plaintext exfiltration, aka EFAIL. (CVE-2017-17689)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This update for kdepim and messagelib fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2017-9604: The kmail 'send later' function does not     have 'sign/encryption' action ensured. (boo#1044210)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
101632	Fedora 26 : kdepim4 (2017-50f7508468)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	7/17/2017	1/6/2021	high
101245	Fedora 25 : kf5-messagelib (2017-bb1ecba1bc)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	7/6/2017	1/6/2021	high
196724	RHEL 6 : kmail (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	5/11/2024	5/31/2024	high
196655	RHEL 7 : kmail (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	5/11/2024	5/31/2024	high
199267	RHEL 7 : kdepim (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	6/3/2024	6/3/2024	high
101646	Fedora 26 : kmail (2017-63fbea2273)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	7/17/2017	1/6/2021	high
101247	Fedora 25 : kmail (2017-f68c93aaac)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	7/6/2017	1/6/2021	high
101628	Fedora 26 : kf5-messagelib (2017-4d03055306)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	7/17/2017	1/6/2021	high
101190	openSUSE Security Update : kdepim4 (openSUSE-2017-755)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	7/3/2017	1/19/2021	high
199281	RHEL 6 : kdepim (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	6/3/2024	6/3/2024	high
101244	Fedora 25 : kdepim4 (2017-a11f853361)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	7/6/2017	1/6/2021	high
101191	openSUSE Security Update : kdepim / messagelib (openSUSE-2017-756)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	7/3/2017	1/19/2021	high

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