Bug 2238241 (CVE-2023-4875) - CVE-2023-4875 mutt: null pointer dereference
Summary: CVE-2023-4875 mutt: null pointer dereference
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-4875
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security
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Depends On: 2238551
Blocks: 2238238
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-09-10 19:36 UTC by ybuenos
Modified: 2024-04-30 10:01 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: mutt 2.2.12
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A null pointer dereference flaw was found in mutt when handling specially crafted characters. This issue could allow an attacker to send a specially crafted email that causes the email client to crash when reading or processing the email.
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:2290 0 None None None 2024-04-30 10:01:53 UTC

Description ybuenos 2023-09-10 19:36:20 UTC 
Null pointer dereference when composing from a specially crafted draft message in Mutt >1.5.2 <2.2.12

https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/commit/4cc3128abdf52c615911589394a03271fddeefc6.patch
https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/commit/452ee330e094bfc7c9a68555e5152b1826534555.patch
Comment 2 Sandipan Roy 2023-09-12 12:19:27 UTC 
Created mutt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2238551]
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2024-04-30 10:01:53 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2024:2290 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2290
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