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Debian Security Advisory DSA 889-1 (enigmail)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to enigmail announced via advisory DSA 889-1. A bug has been discovered in enigmail, GPG support for Mozilla MailNews and Mozilla Thunderbird, that can lead to the encryption of mail with the wrong public key, hence, potential disclosure of confidential data to others. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain enigmail packages.

Solution

Solution

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.91-4sarge2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.93-1. We recommend that you upgrade your enigmail packages. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20889-1

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