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Red Hat: RHSA-2018-2526-01 Important Mutt Code Execution Issue

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Calendar Grey August 20, 2018
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This notice details a critical patch for CentOS Linux tackling various vulnerabilities and enhancements.
An update for mutt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Mutt is a low resource, highly configurable, text-based MIME e-mail client. Mutt supports most e-mail storing formats, such as mbox and Maildir, as well as most protocols, including POP3 and IMAP.
Security Fix(es):
* mutt: Remote code injection vulnerability to an IMAP mailbox (CVE-2018-14354)
* mutt: Remote Code Execution via backquote characters (CVE-2018-14357)
* mutt: POP body caching path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2018-14362)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution Red Hat Enterprise Linux important mutt update remote code injection issue fixed

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14354 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14357 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14362 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: mutt-1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6.src.rpm
i386: mutt-1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6.i686.rpm mutt-debuginfo-1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: mutt-1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6.x86_64.rpm mutt-debuginfo-1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6):
Source: mutt-1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6.src.rpm
x86_64: mutt-1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6.x86_64.rpm mutt-debuginfo-1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source: mutt-1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6.src.rpm
i386: mutt-1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6.i686.rpm mutt-debuginfo-1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6.i686.rpm
ppc64: mutt-1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6.ppc64.rpm mutt-debuginfo-1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6.ppc64.rpm
s390x: mutt-1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6.s390x.rpm mutt-debuginfo-1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6.s390x.rpm
x86_64: mutt-1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6.x86_64.rpm mutt-debuginfo-1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source: mutt-1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6.src.rpm
i386: mutt-1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6.i686.rpm mutt-debuginfo-1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: mutt-1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2526-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2526
Issue date: 2018-08-20

Topic

An update for mutt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and RedHat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution Red Hat Enterprise Linux important mutt update remote code injection issue fixed

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x

Bugs Fixed

1602069 - CVE-2018-14354 mutt: Remote code injection vulnerability to an IMAP mailbox

1602079 - CVE-2018-14362 mutt: POP body caching path traversal vulnerability

1602915 - CVE-2018-14357 mutt: Remote Code Execution via backquote characters

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