DSA-889-1 enigmail -- programming error

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-889-1 enigmail -- programming error

Date Reported:

08 Nov 2005

Affected Packages:

enigmail

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 335731.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-3256.
CERT's vulnerabilities, advisories and incident notes: VU#805121.

More information:

Hadmut Danish discovered a bug 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.

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.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/enigmail_0.91-4sarge2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/enigmail_0.91-4sarge2.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/enigmail_0.91.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/mozilla-enigmail_0.91-4sarge2_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail_0.91-4sarge2_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/mozilla-enigmail_0.91-4sarge2_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail_0.91-4sarge2_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/mozilla-enigmail_0.91-4sarge2_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail_0.91-4sarge2_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/mozilla-enigmail_0.91-4sarge2_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail_0.91-4sarge2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/mozilla-enigmail_0.91-4sarge2_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail_0.91-4sarge2_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/mozilla-enigmail_0.91-4sarge2_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail_0.91-4sarge2_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/mozilla-enigmail_0.91-4sarge2_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail_0.91-4sarge2_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/mozilla-enigmail_0.91-4sarge2_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail_0.91-4sarge2_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/mozilla-enigmail_0.91-4sarge2_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail_0.91-4sarge2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/mozilla-enigmail_0.91-4sarge2_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail_0.91-4sarge2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/mozilla-enigmail_0.91-4sarge2_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail_0.91-4sarge2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/mozilla-enigmail_0.91-4sarge2_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail_0.91-4sarge2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.