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Fedora Core 5 : mutt-1.4.2.1-8.fc5 (2007-540)

high Nessus Plugin ID 25358

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes two security issues :

The APOP protocol allows remote attackers to guess the first 3 characters of a password via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks that use crafted message IDs and MD5 collisions. (CVE-2007-1558)

Buffer overflow in Mutt 1.4.2 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via '&' characters in the GECOS field, which triggers the overflow during alias expansion. (CVE-2007-2683)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?194f0703

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 25358

File Name: fedora_2007-540.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/1/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mutt, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mutt-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/30/2007

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2007-540