Mageia 7: 2021-0070 Moderate: Mutt Denial of Service Advisory
mageia
February 5, 2021
It was discovered that Mutt incorrectly handled certain email messages
Summary
It was discovered that Mutt incorrectly handled certain email messages.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service because
rfc822.c in Mutt through 2.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service (mailbox unavailability) by sending email messages with sequences of
semicolon characters in RFC822 address fields (aka terminators of empty groups).
(CVE-2021-3181).
mutt-1.11.4 has been patched for Mageia 7.
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28159
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/19/10
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/17/2
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00017.html
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4703-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3181
Resolution
SRPMS
- 7/core/mutt-1.11.4-1.5.mga7
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Publication date: 05 Feb 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0070.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-3181
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