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enigmail: information disclosure

Package(s):enigmail CVE #(s):CVE-2005-3256
Created:October 20, 2005 Updated:December 13, 2005
Description: The key selection dialog from the Mozilla Thunderbird enigmail plugin has an information disclosure vulnerability. A key with an empty user id from a user's keyring will be used by default, allowing a message to be decrypted. This can lead to an unauthorized information disclosure.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:226 2005-12-12
Debian DSA-889-1 2005-11-08
Ubuntu USN-211-1 2005-10-20
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