Secunia Security Advisory - Red Hat has issued an update for mutt. This fixes a security issue, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks.
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TITLE:
Red Hat update for mutt
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA45298
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RELEASE DATE:
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DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for mutt. This fixes a security issue,
which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing
attacks.
The security issue is caused due the application not properly
checking if the "Common Name" field provided inside X.509
certificates matches the requested hostname of the SMTP server. This
can be exploited to e.g. conduct Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks.
SOLUTION:
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PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
dave b
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
RHSA-2011:0959-01:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0959.html
dave b:
http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3506
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