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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4401-1
June 22, 2020
mutt vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
– Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
– Ubuntu 19.10
– Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
– Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
– Ubuntu 12.04 ESM
Summary:
Several security issues were fixed in Mutt.
Software Description:
– mutt: text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading
Details:
It was discovered that Mutt incorrectly handled certain requests.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to enable MITM attacks.
(CVE-2020-14093)
It was discovered that Mutt incorrectly handled certain requests.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to proceeds with a connection
even if the user rejects an expired intermediate certificate.
(CVE-2020-14154)
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
mutt 1.13.2-1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 19.10:
mutt 1.10.1-2.1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
mutt 1.9.4-3ubuntu0.2
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
mutt 1.5.24-1ubuntu0.3
Ubuntu 12.04 ESM:
mutt 1.5.21-5ubuntu2.4
After a standard system update you need to restart mutt to make all the necessary changes.
References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4401-1
CVE-2020-14093, CVE-2020-14154
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutt/1.13.2-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutt/1.10.1-2.1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutt/1.9.4-3ubuntu0.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutt/1.5.24-1ubuntu0.3
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