| Name | CVE-2020-28638 |
| Description | ask_password in Tomb 2.0 through 2.7 returns a warning when pinentry-curses is used and $DISPLAY is non-empty, causing affected users' files to be encrypted with "tomb {W] Detected DISPLAY, but only pinentry-curses is found." as the encryption key. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 974719, 975084 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| tomb (PTS) | bullseye | 2.9+dfsg1-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.9+dfsg1-2 | fixed |
| trixie | 2.11+dfsg-2 | fixed |
| forky, sid | 2.13+dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| tomb | source | buster | (not affected) | | | |
| tomb | source | (unstable) | 2.8+dfsg1-1 | | | 974719, 975084 |
Notes
[buster] - tomb <not-affected> (Vulnerability introduced later)
https://github.com/dyne/Tomb/issues/385
Introduced by: https://github.com/dyne/Tomb/commit/477ab204439ddb88d7293d3c35a29e29751feda9 (v2.6)
https://github.com/dyne/Tomb/pull/386
Attempted to be fixed via: https://github.com/dyne/Tomb/commit/15c894dfb41db3ea3290bdf8f958fd9e3503c4bb
which only hides the problem.
https://github.com/dyne/Tomb/issues/392