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Fedora 7 : mutt-1.5.14-4.fc7 (2007-0002)

low Nessus Plugin ID 62264

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora 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?69f72e63

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 62264

File Name: fedora_2007-0002.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/24/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mutt, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mutt-debuginfo

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/31/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-1558, CVE-2007-2683

FEDORA: 2007-0002