CVE-2017-17846

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    CVE-2017-17846

    Published: 27 Dec 2017Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

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

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

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    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
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    Availability
    None
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    High
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