Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title mutt security update
Informations
Name DSA-4277 First vendor Publication 2018-08-17
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2018-08-17
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

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

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Mutt, a text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading, potentially leading to code execution, denial of service or information disclosure when connecting to a malicious mail/NNTP server.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.7.2-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mutt packages.

For the detailed security status of mutt please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/mutt

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4277

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
29 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)
21 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
14 % CWE-78 Improper Sanitization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') (CWE/SANS Top 25)
14 % CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (CWE/SANS Top 25)
7 % CWE-191 Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)
7 % CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') (CWE/SANS Top 25)
7 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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

Alert History

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Date Informations
2018-09-12 17:21:26
  • Multiple Updates
2018-08-17 21:19:21
  • First insertion