ALAS2-2018-1077


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
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

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.

New Packages:
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