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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2020-1126-01 Moderate Mutt IMAP Exploit

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Calendar Grey March 31, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Minor canine security patch now accessible for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to address potential directory traversal vulnerabilities linked to IMAP header processing.
An update for mutt is now available for 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: IMAP header caching path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2018-14355)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update Red Hat Enterprise Linux mutt path traversal IMAP

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14355 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.8_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: mutt-1.5.21-29.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: mutt-1.5.21-29.el7.x86_64.rpm mutt-debuginfo-1.5.21-29.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: mutt-1.5.21-29.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: mutt-1.5.21-29.el7.x86_64.rpm mutt-debuginfo-1.5.21-29.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: mutt-1.5.21-29.el7.src.rpm
ppc64: mutt-1.5.21-29.el7.ppc64.rpm mutt-debuginfo-1.5.21-29.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: mutt-1.5.21-29.el7.ppc64le.rpm mutt-debuginfo-1.5.21-29.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: mutt-1.5.21-29.el7.s390x.rpm mutt-debuginfo-1.5.21-29.el7.s390x.rpm
x86_64: mutt-1.5.21-29.el7.x86_64.rpm mutt-debuginfo-1.5.21-29.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):
Source: mutt-1.5.21-29.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: mutt-1.5.21-29.el7.x86_64.rpm mutt-debuginfo-1.5.21-29.el7.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1126-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1126
Issue date: 2020-03-31

Topic

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

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update Red Hat Enterprise Linux mutt path traversal IMAP

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 Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

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

Bugs Fixed

1602081 - CVE-2018-14355 mutt: IMAP header caching path traversal vulnerability

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