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High ALAS2-2018-1077 3 CVEs

Important: mutt security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Sep 12, 2018 · Updated Sep 15, 2018

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-14362: An issue was discovered in Mutt before 1.10.1 and NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. pop.c does not forbid characters that may have unsafe interaction with message-cache pathnames, as demonstrated by a '/' character. 1602079: CVE-2018-14362 mutt: POP body caching path traversal vulnerability CVE-2018-14357: An issue was discovered in Mutt before 1.10.1 and NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. They allow remote IMAP servers to execute arbitrary commands via backquote characters, related to the mailboxes command associated with an automatic subscription. 1602915: CVE-2018-14357 mutt: Remote Code Execution via backquote characters CVE-2018-14354: An issue was discovered in Mutt before 1.10.1 and NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. They allow remote IMAP servers to execute arbitrary commands via backquote characters, related to the mailboxes command associated with a manual subscription or unsubscription. 1602069: CVE-2018-14354 mutt: Remote code injection vulnerability to an IMAP mailbox

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 mutt 5:1.5.21-28.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 mutt-debuginfo 5:1.5.21-28.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 3

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-14354.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-14357.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-14362.html