Amazon Linux AMI : mutt (ALAS-2023-1865)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 183850

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of mutt installed on the remote host is prior to 1.5.20-7.20091214hg736b6a.11. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1865 advisory.

- Buffer Overflow in uudecoder in Mutt affecting all versions starting from 0.94.13 before 2.2.3 allows read past end of input line (CVE-2022-1328)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Run 'yum update mutt' to update your system.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 183850

File Name: ala_ALAS-2023-1865.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Amazon Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 10/25/2023

Updated: 10/25/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-1328

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mutt, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mutt-debuginfo, cpe:/o:amazon:linux

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/12/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/12/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-1328

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