DSA-5494-1 mutt -- security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-4874   CVE-2023-4875  

Several NULL pointer dereference flaws were discovered in Mutt, a text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading, which may result in denial of service (application crash) when viewing a specially crafted email or when composing from a specially crafted draft message. For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.5-4.1+deb11u3. For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.9-1+deb12u1. We recommend that you upgrade your mutt packages. For the detailed security status of mutt please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/mutt

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-5494-1 mutt -- security update

Date Reported:
10 Sep 2023
Affected Packages:
mutt
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 1051563.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2023-4874, CVE-2023-4875.
More information:

Several NULL pointer dereference flaws were discovered in Mutt, a text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading, which may result in denial of service (application crash) when viewing a specially crafted email or when composing from a specially crafted draft message.

For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.5-4.1+deb11u3.

For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.9-1+deb12u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mutt packages.

For the detailed security status of mutt please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/mutt