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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : mutt vulnerability (USN-1221-1)

🗓️ 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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Ubuntu mutt SSL certificate verification vulnerabilit

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#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1221-1. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See 
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered 
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(56346);
  script_version("1.8");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/19 12:54:27");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2011-1429");
  script_bugtraq_id(46803);
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"1221-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : mutt vulnerability (USN-1221-1)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated packages.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related
patches."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"It was discovered that mutt incorrectly verified the hostname in an
SSL certificate. An attacker could trick mutt into trusting a rogue
SMTPS, IMAPS, or POP3S server's certificate, which was signed by a
trusted certificate authority, to perform a man-in-the-middle attack.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://usn.ubuntu.com/1221-1/"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected mutt and / or mutt-patched packages."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mutt");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mutt-patched");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2011/03/16");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2011/09/29");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2011/09/30");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2011-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("ubuntu.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");

if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release");
if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu");
release = chomp(release);
if (! preg(pattern:"^(10\.04|10\.10|11\.04)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 10.04 / 10.10 / 11.04", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);

flag = 0;

if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.04", pkgname:"mutt", pkgver:"1.5.20-7ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.04", pkgname:"mutt-patched", pkgver:"1.5.20-7ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.10", pkgname:"mutt", pkgver:"1.5.20-9ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.10", pkgname:"mutt-patched", pkgver:"1.5.20-9ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"11.04", pkgname:"mutt", pkgver:"1.5.21-2ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"11.04", pkgname:"mutt-patched", pkgver:"1.5.21-2ubuntu3.1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
    extra      : ubuntu_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "mutt / mutt-patched");
}

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19 Sep 2019 12:54Current
5.4Medium risk
Vulners AI Score5.4
CVSS 25.8
EPSS0.01475
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