openEuler update for mutt
| Risk | Medium |
| Patch available | YES |
| Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
| CVE-ID | CVE-2021-3181 |
| CWE-ID | CWE-400 |
| Exploitation vector | Network |
| Public exploit | N/A |
| Vulnerable software Subscribe |
openEuler Operating systems & Components / Operating system mutt-help Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component mutt-debugsource Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component mutt-debuginfo Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component mutt Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component |
| Vendor | openEuler |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion
EUVDB-ID: #VU50017
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3181
CWE-ID:
CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when handling email messages with sequences of semicolon characters in RFC822 address fields. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted email message, force the application to consume a huge amount of memory and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
MitigationInstall updates from vendor's repository.
Vulnerable software versionsopenEuler: 20.03 LTS - 20.03 LTS SP1
mutt-help: before 1.10.1-4
mutt-debugsource: before 1.10.1-4
mutt-debuginfo: before 1.10.1-4
mutt: before 1.10.1-4
External linkshttp://www.openeuler.org/en/security/security-bulletins/detail/?id=openEuler-SA-2021-1079
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.
