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CVE-2017-17843

Published: Dec 22, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

An issue was discovered in Enigmail before 1.9.9 that allows remote attackers to trigger use of an intended public key for encryption, because incorrect regular expressions are used for extraction of an e-mail address from a comma-separated list, as demonstrated by a modified Full Name field and a homograph attack, aka TBE-01-002.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://enigmail.net/download/other/Enigmail%20Pentest%20Report%20by%20Cure53%20-%20Excerpt.pdf

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https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00333.html

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https://www.mail-archive.com/enigmail-users%40enigmail.net/msg04280.html

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[debian-lts-announce] 20171223 [SECURITY] [DLA 1219-1] enigmail security update

mailing-list

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vendor-advisory

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