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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 : Mutt vulnerabilities (USN-6374-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 181450

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6374-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Mutt incorrectly handled certain email header contents. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted message, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2023-4874, CVE-2023-4875)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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

Update the affected mutt and / or mutt-patched packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6374-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 181450

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6374-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/14/2023

Updated: 8/27/2024

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: 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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:esm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mutt, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mutt-patched, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/9/2023

Reference Information

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

USN: 6374-1