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Summary
Title Mutt vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-3719-3 First vendor Publication 2018-09-28
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2018-09-28
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
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:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 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 16.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in Mutt.

Software Description: - mutt: text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading

Details:

USN-3719-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Mutt. Unfortunately, the fixes were not correctly applied to the packaging for Mutt in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update corrects the oversight.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that Mutt incorrectly handled certain requests.
An attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2018-14350, CVE-2018-14352, CVE-2018-14354, CVE-2018-14359,
CVE-2018-14358, CVE-2018-14353 ,CVE-2018-14357)

It was discovered that Mutt incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this to access or expose sensitive
information. (CVE-2018-14355, CVE-2018-14356, CVE-2018-14351,
CVE-2018-14362, CVE-2018-14349)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
mutt 1.5.24-1ubuntu0.2
mutt-patched 1.5.24-1ubuntu0.2

After a standard system update you need to restart mutt to make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3719-3
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3719-1
CVE-2018-14349, CVE-2018-14350, CVE-2018-14351, CVE-2018-14352,
CVE-2018-14353, CVE-2018-14354, CVE-2018-14355, CVE-2018-14356,
CVE-2018-14357, CVE-2018-14358, CVE-2018-14359, CVE-2018-14362,
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1794278

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutt/1.5.24-1ubuntu0.2

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3719-3

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
27 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)
18 % CWE-78 Improper Sanitization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') (CWE/SANS Top 25)
18 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
9 % CWE-191 Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)
9 % CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') (CWE/SANS Top 25)
9 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
9 % CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 45
Application 1
Os 4
Os 2
Os 2
Os 2
Os 2
Os 3
Os 2
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-f1438c5833.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-10-31 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201810-07.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-09-27 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1304.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-09-27 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1305.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-09-19 Name : The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.
File : al2_ALAS-2018-1077.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-21 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2018-2526.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-20 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4277.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-03 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1455.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-02 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-502e31a658.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-20 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_a2f350818a0211e88fa54437e6ad11c4.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-20 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_fe12ef838b4711e896cc001a4a7ec6be.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-09-28 09:19:07
  • First insertion