CVE-2017-17846

published 2017-12-27

CVE-2017-17846: 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…

Priority P4 33 high 7.5 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C N I N A H

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.

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	enigmail	< enigmail 2:1.9.9-1 (bullseye)	enigmail 2:1.9.9-1 (bullseye)
enigmail	enigmail	< 1.9.9	1.9.9
enigmail	enigmail	>= 0 < 2:1.9.9-1	2:1.9.9-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv 7.5 HIGH

vendor_debian 7.5 HIGH

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