UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17846

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17846
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17846.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17846
Upstream
Published
2017-12-27T17:08:00Z
Modified
2025-07-16T08:20:57.668488Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - low
Summary
[none]
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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / enigmail

Package

Name
enigmail
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/enigmail@2:1.9.9-0ubuntu0.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:1.9.9-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Affected versions

2:1.*

2:1.5.2-0ubuntu1
2:1.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
2:1.7.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
2:1.8.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
2:1.9.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "enigmail",
            "binary_version": "2:1.9.9-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17846.json"

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / enigmail

Package

Name
enigmail
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/enigmail@2:1.9.9-0ubuntu0.16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:1.9.9-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Affected versions

2:1.*

2:1.8.2-0ubuntu1
2:1.8.2-4fakesync1
2:1.9.1-1
2:1.9.7-1~ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "enigmail",
            "binary_version": "2:1.9.9-0ubuntu0.16.04.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17846.json"