Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2018-1077
Advisory Release Date: 2018-09-12 22:24 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2018-09-15 03:55 Pacific
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
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.(CVE-2018-14362)
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.(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 an automatic subscription.(CVE-2018-14357)
Affected Packages:
mutt
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update mutt to update your system.
i686:
mutt-1.5.21-28.amzn2.i686
mutt-debuginfo-1.5.21-28.amzn2.i686
src:
mutt-1.5.21-28.amzn2.src
x86_64:
mutt-1.5.21-28.amzn2.x86_64
mutt-debuginfo-1.5.21-28.amzn2.x86_64