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Mageia 9: 2024-0175 Critical: Mutt Null Pointer Drefs in Email Processing

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Calendar Grey May 13, 2024
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Recent patches for Mutt address critical pointer vulnerabilities in Mageia versions, mitigating serious security threats within email handling.
Null pointer dereference when viewing a specially crafted email in Mutt >1.5.2 <2.2.12

Summary

Null pointer dereference when viewing a specially crafted email in Mutt >1.5.2 <2.2.12. (CVE-2023-4874) Null pointer dereference when composing from a specially crafted draft message in Mutt >1.5.2 <2.2.12. (CVE-2023-4875)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33161

- https://lwn.net/Articles/971683/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-4874

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-4875

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical null pointer Mutt Mageia email processing

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/mutt-2.2.10-1.1.mga9

Severity
critical
Lowest
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Medium
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Critical

Publication date: 13 May 2024
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2024-0175.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2023-4874, CVE-2023-4875

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical null pointer Mutt Mageia email processing

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