github - ghsa-xxw4-vmw8-xc6f

ghsa-xxw4-vmw8-xc6f

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-14 03:46

Modified

2025-04-20 03:50

Severity ?

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

An 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.

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  "modified": "2025-04-20T03:50:28Z",
  "published": "2022-05-14T03:46:15Z",
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CVE-2017-17846 (GCVE-0-2017-17846)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2017-12-22 23:00

Modified

2024-08-05 21:06

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

An 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.

References

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URL

Tags

	https://enigmail.net/download/other/Enigmail%20Pentest%20Report%20by%20Cure53%20-%20Excerpt.pdf	x_refsource_MISC
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00333.html	x_refsource_MISC
	https://www.mail-archive.com/enigmail-users%40enigmail.net/msg04280.html	x_refsource_MISC
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00021.html	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4070	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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