usn-4403-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2020-06-24 16:22
Modified
2026-02-10 04:41
Summary
mutt vulnerability and regression
Details

It was discovered that Mutt incorrectly handled certain requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to enable MITM attacks. (CVE-2020-14954)

This update also address a regression caused in the last update USN-4401-1. It only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 19.10.

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