IMAPFilter through 2.6.12 does not validate the hostname in an SSL certificate.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - IMAPFilter through 2.6.12 does not validate the hostname in an SSL certificate. (CVE-2016-10937)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

This update for imapfilter fixes the following issues :

Imapfilter was updated to version 2.6.16 including the following security issue :

  - CVE-2016-10937: Added Support for SSL hostname     validation (boo#1149931).

New upstream release: fixes CVE-2016-10937

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The imapfilter tool, a utility for scripting IMAP operations in lua, lacked server name / certificate peer hostname validation support.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.5.2-2+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your imapfilter packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
254161	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-10937	Nessus	Misc.	high
136873	openSUSE Security Update : imapfilter (openSUSE-2020-673)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
131339	Fedora 31 : imapfilter (2019-a6c5d70bde)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
131338	Fedora 30 : imapfilter (2019-90925dd5aa)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
130405	Debian DLA-1976-1 : imapfilter security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

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