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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : mutt (SUSE-SU-2020:1794-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 138307
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Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.Description
This update for mutt fixes the following issues :CVE-2020-14954: Fixed a response injection due to a STARTTLS buffering issue which was affecting IMAP, SMTP, and POP3 (bsc#1173197).
CVE-2020-14093: Fixed a potential IMAP Man-in-the-Middle attack via a PREAUTH response (bsc#1172906, bsc#1172935).
CVE-2020-14154: Fixed an issue where Mutt was ignoring an expired certificate and was proceeding with a connection (bsc#1172906, bsc#1172935).
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Crowbar-8-2020-1794=1
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-8-2020-1794=1
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-7-2020-1794=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP3-2020-1794=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2020-1794=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2020-1794=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2020-1794=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSS :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2020-1794=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-BCL-2020-1794=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2020-1794=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2020-1794=1
SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-5-2020-1794=1
HPE Helion Openstack 8 :
zypper in -t patch HPE-Helion-OpenStack-8-2020-1794=1
See Also
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172906
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172935
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173197
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14093/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14154/
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 138307
File Name: suse_SU-2020-1794-1.nasl
Version: 1.4
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 7/9/2020
Updated: 5/12/2022
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.8
Temporal Score: 4.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14154
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.9
Temporal Score: 5.2
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14954
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mutt-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mutt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mutt-debuginfo
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 6/29/2020
Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/15/2020