Amazon Linux AMI : mutt (ALAS-2023-1865)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 183850

Language:

Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of mutt installed on the remote host is prior to 1.5.20-7.20091214hg736b6a.11. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1865 advisory.

A flaw was found in mutt. When reading unencoded messages, mutt uses the line length from the untrusted input without any validation. This flaw allows an attacker to craft a malicious message, which leads to an out-of-bounds read, causing data leaks that include fragments of other unrelated messages. (CVE-2022-1328)

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

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

Solution

Run 'yum update mutt' to update your system.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 183850

File Name: ala_ALAS-2023-1865.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Amazon Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 10/25/2023

Updated: 12/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-1328

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mutt-debuginfo, cpe:/o:amazon:linux, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mutt

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/12/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/12/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-1328

Detections

Analytics