Hi Mike, Mike Gabriel: > On Mi 24 Apr 2019 12:56:18 CEST, Jonas Meurer wrote: > >> Jonas Meurer: >>> With evolution-data-server, the situation is slightly more complicated. >>> I'm still debugging issues with the patches[5] that are supposed to fix >>> the "[GPG] Mails that are not encrypted look encrypted" issue. >>> >>> [5] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-data-server/commit/93306a29 >>> and https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-data-server/commit/accb0e24 >>> >>> My question: do you agree that these fixes are within the scope of >>> CVE-2018-15587? If so, then I will continue working on the issue and >>> upload both of evolution and evolution-data-server in a batch once I got >>> the issues sorted out. >>> >>> Another option would be to upload evolution to jessie-security right now >>> and decide that evolution-data-server is not affected by CVE-2018-15587, >>> since it's only prone to "encrypted message spoofing", not to "signature >>> spoofing". But in my eyes, that would be a sham. >> >> Looking more into the core issue[1] of "[GPG] Mails that are not >> encrypted look encrypted", it became clear that a lot of applications >> (GnuPG[2], Enigmail[3], Mutt[4]) are affected and it's not tracked as >> security issue for any of them. > > Is it required to coordinate an according update of those CVEs in > data/CVE/list with the security team? Sounds like it.
Yep, you're correct. The Security Team is in the loop now and basically
agrees with my evaluation.
>> In fact it's tracked for evolution{,-data-server} in the debian security
>> tracker only because the issue is mentioned in the CVE-2018-15587
>> bugreport[5].
>>
>> Besides, I agree with the bug author that "this bug is certainly not in
>> the same category as a serious security vulnerability, such as a
>> plaintext leak or a signature spoof"[1].
>>
>> So I changed my mind and decided to ignore the "encryption spoofing" bug
>> and only care about "signature spoofing". This means that
>> evolution-data-server is unaffected and only evolution needs to be fixed.
>
> Your choice of priority sounds good to me.
Thanks a lot for your comments! I just went ahead and uploaded a fixed
evolution to jessie-security. I also consequently removed
evolution-data-server from data/dla-needed.txt.
Cheers
jonas
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