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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2022-7640-01 Moderate Mutt Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey November 8, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A crucial safety patch for mutt on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 has been rated as moderate, addressing a buffer overflow vulnerability.
An update for mutt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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: buffer overflow in uudecoder function (CVE-2022-1328)
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 8.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate impact mutt update email client

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1328 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.7_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: mutt-2.0.7-2.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: mutt-2.0.7-2.el8.aarch64.rpm mutt-debuginfo-2.0.7-2.el8.aarch64.rpm mutt-debugsource-2.0.7-2.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: mutt-2.0.7-2.el8.ppc64le.rpm mutt-debuginfo-2.0.7-2.el8.ppc64le.rpm mutt-debugsource-2.0.7-2.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: mutt-2.0.7-2.el8.s390x.rpm mutt-debuginfo-2.0.7-2.el8.s390x.rpm mutt-debugsource-2.0.7-2.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: mutt-2.0.7-2.el8.x86_64.rpm mutt-debuginfo-2.0.7-2.el8.x86_64.rpm mutt-debugsource-2.0.7-2.el8.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-2022:7640-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7640
Issue date: 2022-11-08

Topic

An update for mutt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.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 buffer overflow Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate impact mutt update email client

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2076058 - CVE-2022-1328 mutt: buffer overflow in uudecoder function

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