1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-211-1

USN-211-1: Enigmail vulnerability

Publication date

20 October 2005

Overview

Enigmail vulnerability

Releases

Details

Hadmut Danish discovered an information disclosure vulnerability in
the key selection dialog of the Mozilla/Thunderbird enigmail plugin.
If a user’s keyring contained a key with an empty user id (i. e. a
key without a name and email address), this key was selected by
default when the user attempted to send an encrypted email. Unless
this empty key was manually deselected, the message got encrypted for
that empty key, whose owner could then decrypt it.

Hadmut Danish discovered an information disclosure vulnerability in
the key selection dialog of the Mozilla/Thunderbird enigmail plugin.
If a user’s keyring contained a key with an empty user id (i. e. a
key without a name and email address), this key was selected by
default when the user attempted to send an encrypted email. Unless
this empty key was manually deselected, the message got encrypted for
that empty key, whose owner could then decrypt it.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
5.10 breezy mozilla-enigmail – 
mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail – 
5.04 hoary mozilla-enigmail – 
mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail – 
4.10 warty mozilla-enigmail – 
mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail – 

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