[MlMt] PSA - PGP / GPG issue !

Benny Kjær Nielsen mailinglist at freron.com
Fri May 18 03:57:48 EDT 2018


On 17 May 2018, at 9:28, Bharath M Palavalli wrote:

> On 14 May 2018, at 19:12, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>
>> On 14 May 2018, at 14:36, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>>
>>> The worst type of exploit was a technique which allowed a 
>>> man-in-the-middle attacker to take any encrypted email and then send 
>>> an email to the author of this email which would effectively decrypt 
>>> the email and send the result to a server, for example, using an 
>>> `<img src>` HTML reference.
>>
>> Just to be clear here, I find this particular bug embarrassing. It is 
>> somewhat related to how MailMate “primitively” handles displaying 
>> multiple email message parts. (Also note, that it only affects email 
>> for which image blocking was disabled.)
>>
> Thanks a lot for the update Benny, one more happy Mailmate user!
>
> Are these changes made in the version 1.11.2 (r5479) or are you 
> referring to this new version that you asked us to wait for in case 
> there are no bugs before you automate it 
> (https://updates.mailmate-app.com/archives/MailMate_r5484.tbz)?

These changes have been in MailMate since a public release in March (the 
1.11 release). I was notified about the “efail” issues in February.

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