Advisories » MGASA-2021-0070

Updated mutt packages fix a security vulnerability

Publication date: 05 Feb 2021
Modification date: 05 Feb 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2021-3181

Description

It was discovered that Mutt incorrectly handled certain email messages.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service because
rfc822.c in Mutt through 2.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service (mailbox unavailability) by sending email messages with sequences of
semicolon characters in RFC822 address fields (aka terminators of empty groups).
(CVE-2021-3181).

mutt-1.11.4 has been patched for Mageia 7.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28159
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/19/10
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/17/2
• https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2021/dla-2529
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4703-1
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3181

SRPMS

7/core

• mutt-1.11.4-1.5.mga7