Executive Summary
Summary | |
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Title | Mutt vulnerability |
Informations | |||
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Name | USN-2440-1 | First vendor Publication | 2014-12-11 |
Vendor | Ubuntu | Last vendor Modification | 2014-12-11 |
Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | N/A |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
Cvss vector : N/A | |||
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Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | |||
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Cvss Base Score | 5 | Attack Range | Network |
Cvss Impact Score | 2.9 | Attack Complexity | Low |
Cvss Expoit Score | 10 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 14.10 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Summary: The mutt mail client could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted email. Software Description: - mutt: text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading Details: Jakub Wilk discovered that the write_one_header function in mutt did not properly handle newline characters at the beginning of a header. An attacker could specially craft an email to cause mutt to crash, resulting in a denial of service. Update instructions: The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 14.10: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: After a standard system update you need to restart any running instances of mutt to make all the necessary changes. References: Package Information: |
Original Source
Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2440-1 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
% | Id | Name |
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100 % | CWE-119 | Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer |
OVAL Definitions
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28345 | |||
Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28345 | ||
Title: | DSA-3083-1 -- mutt security update | ||
Description: | A flaw was discovered in mutt, a text-based mailreader. A specially crafted mail header could cause mutt to crash, leading to a denial of service condition. | ||
Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
Reference(s): | DSA-3083-1 CVE-2014-9116 | Version: | 3 |
Platform(s): | Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.0 | Product(s): | mutt |
Definition Synopsis: | |||
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Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28366 | |||
Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28366 | ||
Title: | USN-2440-1 -- Mutt vulnerability | ||
Description: | Jakub Wilk discovered that the write_one_header function in mutt did not properly handle newline characters at the beginning of a header. An attacker could specially craft an email to cause mutt to crash, resulting in a denial of service. | ||
Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
Reference(s): | USN-2440-1 CVE-2014-9116 | Version: | 3 |
Platform(s): | Ubuntu 14.10 Ubuntu 14.04 Ubuntu 12.04 Ubuntu 10.04 | Product(s): | mutt |
Definition Synopsis: | |||
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CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
Type | Description | Count |
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Application | 1 | |
Os | 1 | |
Os | 1 | |
Os | 1 | |
Os | 1 |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
Date | Description |
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2017-01-03 | Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : gentoo_GLSA-201701-04.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2015-05-20 | Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates. File : suse_SU-2015-0012-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2015-04-24 | Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing a security update. File : suse_11_mutt-150310.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2015-04-22 | Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update. File : Slackware_SSA_2015-111-07.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2015-03-30 | Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-078.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2015-02-16 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2014-16494.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2015-02-16 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2014-16782.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2014-12-26 | Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates. File : freebsd_pkg_c3d43001806411e4801f0022156e8794.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2014-12-16 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : openSUSE-2014-779.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2014-12-15 | Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : mandriva_MDVSA-2014-245.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2014-12-15 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : ubuntu_USN-2440-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2014-12-01 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-3083.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
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2014-12-16 13:25:52 |
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2014-12-12 00:21:10 |
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