RHSA-2024:2290

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2024-04-30 09:54 - Updated: 2025-11-21 18:59
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: mutt security update

Notes

Topic
An update for mutt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. 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.
Details
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. Security Fix(es): * mutt: null pointer dereference (CVE-2023-4874) * mutt: null pointer dereference (CVE-2023-4875) 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 9.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Terms of Use
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