CVE-2017-17846

NameCVE-2017-17846
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in Enigmail before 1.9.9. Regular expressions are exploitable for Denial of Service, because of attempts to match arbitrarily long strings, aka TBE-01-003.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-1219-1, DSA-4070-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
enigmail (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)2:1.9.9-1~deb8u1fixed
buster2:2.2.4-0.2~deb10u1fixed
buster (security), buster (lts)2:2.1.3+ds1-4~deb10u2fixed
bullseye2:2.2.4-0.3fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
enigmailsourcewheezy2:1.9.9-1~deb7u1DLA-1219-1
enigmailsourcejessie2:1.9.9-1~deb8u1DSA-4070-1
enigmailsourcestretch2:1.9.9-1~deb9u1DSA-4070-1
enigmailsource(unstable)2:1.9.9-1

Notes

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

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