RHSA-2021:4181 — Security Advisory

An update for mutt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Mutt is a low resource, highly configurable, text-based MIME e-mail client. Mutt supports most e-mail storing formats, such as mbox and Maildir, as well as most protocols, including POP3 and IMAP.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: mutt (2.0.7). (BZ#1912614)

Security Fix(es):

• mutt: Incorrect handling of invalid initial IMAP responses could lead to an authentication attempt over unencrypted connection (CVE-2020-28896)

• mutt: Memory leak when parsing rfc822 group addresses (CVE-2021-3181)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.