Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature Affecting enigmail package, versions <2:1.9.9-1~deb8u1
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-ENIGMAIL-324108
- published27 Dec 2017
- disclosed27 Dec 2017
Introduced: 27 Dec 2017
CVE-2017-17848 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:8 enigmail to version 2:1.9.9-1~deb8u1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream enigmail package and not the enigmail package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
An issue was discovered in Enigmail before 1.9.9. In a variant of CVE-2017-17847, signature spoofing is possible for multipart/related messages because a signed message part can be referenced with a cid: URI but not actually displayed. In other words, the entire containing message appears to be signed, but the recipient does not see any of the signed text.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17848
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4070
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00021.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152703/Johnny-You-Are-Fired.html
- https://github.com/RUB-NDS/Johnny-You-Are-Fired
- https://github.com/RUB-NDS/Johnny-You-Are-Fired/blob/master/paper/johnny-fired.pdf
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00333.html
- https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/709/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/30/4
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Apr/38
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-17848