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Fedora 15 : mutt-1.5.21-5.fc15 (2011-7739)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55057

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is an update that fixes a hostname verification of x.509 certificates and a segmentation fault during reading message headers.

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 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688755

http://www.nessus.org/u?249f03e0

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55057

File Name: fedora_2011-7739.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/12/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mutt

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/2/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1429

BID: 46803

FEDORA: 2011-7739