Debian DSA-5494-1 : mutt - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 181212

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5494 advisory.

Several NULL pointer dereference flaws were discovered in Mutt, a text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading, which may result in denial of service (application crash) when viewing a specially crafted email or when composing from a specially crafted draft message. For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.5-4.1+deb11u3. For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.9-1+deb12u1. 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

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade the mutt packages.

For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.9-1+deb12u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 181212

File Name: debian_DSA-5494.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/11/2023

Updated: 1/24/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-4874

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mutt, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/10/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/9/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-4874, CVE-2023-4875

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