Bug 1768449 (CVE-2005-2351) - CVE-2005-2351 mutt: denial of service via a series of requests to temporary files
Summary: CVE-2005-2351 mutt: denial of service via a series of requests to temporary f...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2005-2351
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1768451
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Reported: 2019-11-04 13:32 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2021-02-16 21:07 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: mutt 1.5.21
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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.
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Last Closed: 2020-01-13 14:09:30 UTC
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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.
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