Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4277-1 mutt -- security update

Date Reported:

17 Aug 2018

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 904051.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-14349, CVE-2018-14350, CVE-2018-14351, CVE-2018-14352, CVE-2018-14353, CVE-2018-14354, CVE-2018-14355, CVE-2018-14356, CVE-2018-14357, CVE-2018-14358, CVE-2018-14359, CVE-2018-14360, CVE-2018-14361, CVE-2018-14362, CVE-2018-14363.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Mutt, a text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading, potentially leading to code execution, denial of service or information disclosure when connecting to a malicious mail/NNTP server.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.7.2-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mutt packages.

For the detailed security status of mutt please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/mutt