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ELSA-2011-0959 Moderate: Oracle Linux mutt security update

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ELSA-2011-0959 Moderate: Oracle Linux mutt security update

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
03/16/2011
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/20/2011
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Mutt does not verify that the smtps server hostname matches the domain name of the subject of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof an SSL SMTP server via an arbitrary certificate, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-3766.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mutt

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