Debian Security Advisory

DSA-889-1 enigmail -- programming error

Date Reported:

08 Nov 2005

Affected Packages:

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.