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openSUSE Security Update : mutt (openSUSE-SU-2014:1635-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 80051

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

mutt was updated to fix a security issue with a heap-based buffer overflow in mutt_substrdup() (CVE-2014-9116).

Solution

Update the affected mutt packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=907453

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-12/msg00053.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 80051

File Name: openSUSE-2014-779.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/16/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mutt, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mutt-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mutt-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.3, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 12/5/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9116