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Ubuntu 20.04: USN-4403-1 Moderate: Mutt MITM Attack Risk

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Calendar Grey June 24, 2020
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Tackling Mutt vulnerabilities on Ubuntu to mitigate possible MITM threats and resolve regression glitches.
Mutt could be made to enable MITM attacks if it received a specially crafted request.

Summary

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security advisory security issue software update Ubuntu Mutt regression MITM attack

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: mutt 1.13.2-1ubuntu0.2 Ubuntu 19.10: mutt 1.10.1-2.1ubuntu0.2 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: mutt 1.9.4-3ubuntu0.3 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: mutt 1.5.24-1ubuntu0.4 Ubuntu 12.04 ESM: mutt 1.5.21-5ubuntu2.5 After a standard system update you need to restart mutt to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4403-1

CVE-2020-14954, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutt/+bug/1884588

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June 24, 2020

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security advisory security issue software update Ubuntu Mutt regression MITM attack

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutt/1.13.2-1ubuntu0.2 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutt/1.10.1-2.1ubuntu0.2 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutt/1.9.4-3ubuntu0.3 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutt/1.5.24-1ubuntu0.4

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