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

mageia
Calendar Grey May 13, 2024
Dist Mageia Esm H88
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
Low
Medium
High
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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