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openSUSE Leap 15.3: 2021:1234-2 Critical Mutt Network Patch

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Calendar Grey December 1, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Important release for openSUSE Leap 15.2, addressing vulnerabilities in mutt and improving the overall reliability of the email application.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available

Description

This update for mutt fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2020-28896: incomplete connection termination could lead to sending

credentials over unencrypted connections (bsc#1179035)

- Avoid that message with a million tiny parts can freeze MUA for several

minutes (bsc#1179113)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-2141=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (noarch):

mutt-doc-1.10.1-lp152.3.6.1

mutt-lang-1.10.1-lp152.3.6.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

mutt-1.10.1-lp152.3.6.1

mutt-debuginfo-1.10.1-lp152.3.6.1

mutt-debugsource-1.10.1-lp152.3.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-28896.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179035

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179113

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:2141-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 able.

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