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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.10 : mutt vulnerability (USN-2147-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 73017

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Synopsis

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

Description

Beatrice Torracca and Evgeni Golov discovered a buffer overflow in mutt while expanding addresses when parsing email headers. An attacker could specially craft an email to cause mutt to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking mutt.

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Solution

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

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2147-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 73017

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2147-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/14/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mutt-patched, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mutt, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/13/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/14/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0467

BID: 66165

USN: 2147-1