Bug 1768449 (CVE-2005-2351)

Summary:	CVE-2005-2351 mutt: denial of service via a series of requests to temporary files
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	athoscribeiro, dakingun, databases-maint, hhorak, jmmahler, jpacner, me, mmuzila, pkubat
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	mutt 1.5.21	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	An insecure temporary file vulnerability was found in the way mutt created temporary files under /tmp. Specifically, mutt created temporary files in an insecure way, using only predictable elements such as the hostname, user ID (uid) and process ID (pid). A local attacker could exploit this flaw to create those temporary files beforehand, causing a denial of service by preventing the user from using mutt.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Blocks:	1768451

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-11-04 13:32:52 UTC

Mutt before 1.5.20 patch 7 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service via a series of requests to mutt temporary files.

Reference:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=311296

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-01-13 14:09:30 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2005-2351

Comment 3 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2020-01-13 14:14:03 UTC

Upstream fix:
https://github.com/muttmua/mutt/commit/6d0624411a979e2e1d76af4dd97d03f47679ea4a

Comment 4 Eric Christensen 2020-01-20 13:16:23 UTC

Statement:

This flaw does not affect versions of mutt as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and 8 as they already include the patch.