CVE-2018-14359

high-risk

Published 2018-07-17

An issue was discovered in Mutt before 1.10.1 and NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. They have a buffer overflow via base64 data.

Do I need to act?

3.8% chance of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS score — moderate exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Fix available

Upgrade to: ed9d7727dc705754871e31cb41420f0ea956495b, 6a147a62cf39c2a12cf2e96a8a62f378164548fa, 6f163e07ae68654d7ac5268cbb7565f6df79ad85, 3d9028fec8f4d08db2251096307c0bbbebce669a

CVSS 9.8/10 Critical

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (8)

Mutt

Neomutt

Ubuntu Linux

Debian Linux

Affected Vendors

Debian Mutt Canonical Neomutt

References (20)

Release Notes http://www.mutt.org/news.html

Patch https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/6f163e07ae68654d7ac5268cbb7565f6df79ad...

Patch https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/commit/3d9028fec8f4d08db2251096307c0bbbebce669a

Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00001.html

Release Notes https://neomutt.org/2018/07/16/release

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-07

Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3719-1/

Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3719-2/

Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3719-3/

Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4277