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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-14362: Security patch for mutt (ALAS-2018-1077)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-14362: Security patch for mutt (ALAS-2018-1077)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/17/2018
Created
05/08/2020
Added
04/27/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-mutt
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-mutt-debuginfo

References

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