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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : mutt vulnerability (USN-1221-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56346

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

It was discovered that mutt incorrectly verified the hostname in an SSL certificate. An attacker could trick mutt into trusting a rogue SMTPS, IMAPS, or POP3S server's certificate, which was signed by a trusted certificate authority, to perform a man-in-the-middle attack.

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Solution

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

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1221-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56346

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1221-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/30/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mutt, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mutt-patched, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/29/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/16/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1429

BID: 46803

USN: 1221-1