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Debian DSA-4277-1 : mutt - security update

2018-08-2000:00:00
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CVSS2

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS3

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

8.6

Confidence

Low

EPSS

0.013

Percentile

86.0%

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.

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-4277. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(111986);
  script_version("1.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/08/16");

  script_cve_id(
    "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"
  );
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"4277");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-4277-1 : mutt - security update");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"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.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=904051");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/mutt");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/mutt");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4277");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade the mutt packages.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed
in version 1.7.2-1+deb9u1.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2018-14362");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/08/17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/08/20");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mutt");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"mutt", reference:"1.7.2-1+deb9u1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");

References

CVSS2

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS3

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

8.6

Confidence

Low

EPSS

0.013

Percentile

86.0%