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Security update for neomutt (moderate)

2020-12-0100:00:00
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5.9 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

5.8 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has one
errata is now available.

Description:

This update for neomutt fixes the following issues:

Update neomutt to 20201120. Address boo#1179035, CVE-2020-28896.

 * Security
   - imap: close connection on all failures
 * Features
   - alias: add function to Alias/Query dialogs
   - config: add validators for {imap,smtp,pop}_authenticators
   - config: warn when signature file is missing or not readable
   - smtp: support for native SMTP LOGIN auth mech
   - notmuch: show originating folder in index
 * Bug Fixes
   - sidebar: prevent the divider colour bleeding out
   - sidebar: fix <sidebar-{next,prev}-new>
   - notmuch: fix query for current email
   - restore shutdown-hook functionality
   - crash in reply-to
   - user-after-free in folder-hook
   - fix some leaks
   - fix application of limits to modified mailboxes
   - write Date header when postponing
 * Translations
   - 100% Lithuanian
   - 100% Czech
   - 70% Turkish
 * Docs
   - Document that $sort_alias affects the query menu
 * Build
   - improve ASAN flags
   - add SASL and S/MIME to --everything
   - fix contrib (un)install
 * Code
   - my_hdr compose screen notifications
   - add contracts to the MXAPI
   - maildir refactoring
   - further reduce the use of global variables
 * Upstream
   - Add $count_alternatives to count attachments inside alternatives
  • Changes from 20200925

    • Features
      • Compose: display user-defined headers
      • Address Book / Query: live sorting
      • Address Book / Query: patterns for searching
      • Config: Add ‘+=’ and ‘-=’ operators for String Lists
      • Config: Add ‘+=’ operator for Strings
      • Allow postfix query ‘:setenv NAME?’ for env vars
    • Bug Fixes
      • Fix crash when searching with invalid regexes
      • Compose: Prevent infinite loop of send2-hooks
      • Fix sidebar on new/removed mailboxes
      • Restore indentation for named mailboxes
      • Prevent half-parsing an alias
      • Remove folder creation prompt for POP path
      • Show error if $message_cachedir doesn’t point to a valid directory
      • Fix tracking LastDir in case of IMAP paths with Unicode characters
      • Make sure all mail gets applied the index limit
      • Add warnings to -Q query CLI option
      • Fix index tracking functionality
    • Changed Config
      • Add $compose_show_user_headers (yes)
    • Translations
      • 100% Czech
      • 100% Lithuanian
      • Split up usage strings
    • Build
      • Run shellcheck on hcachever.sh
      • Add the Address Sanitizer
      • Move compose files to lib under compose/
      • Move address config into libaddress
      • Update to latest acutest - fixes a memory leak in the unit tests
    • Code
      • Implement ARRAY API
      • Deglobalised the Config Sort functions
      • Refactor the Sidebar to be Event-Driven
      • Refactor the Color Event
      • Refactor the Commands list
      • Make ctx_update_tables private
      • Reduce the scope/deps of some Validator functions
      • Use the Email’s IMAP UID instead of an increasing number as index
      • debug: log window focus
  • Removed neomutt-sidebar-abbreviate-shorten-what-user-sees.patch. No
    longer needed.

  • Update to 20200821:

    • Bug Fixes
      • fix maildir flag generation
      • fix query notmuch if file is missing
      • notmuch: don’t abort sync on error
      • fix type checking for send config variables
    • Changed Config
      • $sidebar_format - Use %D rather than %B for named mailboxes
    • Translations
      • 96% Lithuanian
      • 90% Polish
  • fix(sidebar): abbreviate/shorten what user sees

  • Fix sidebar mailbox name display problem.

  • Update to 20200814:

    • Notes
      • Add one-liner docs to config items See: neomutt -O -Q smart_wrap
      • Remove the built-in editor A large unused and unusable feature
    • Security
      • Add mitigation against DoS from thousands of parts boo#1179113
    • Features
      • Allow index-style searching in postpone menu
      • Open NeoMutt using a mailbox name
      • Add cd command to change the current working directory
      • Add tab-completion menu for patterns
      • Allow renaming existing mailboxes
      • Check for missing attachments in alternative parts
      • Add one-liner docs to config items
    • Bug Fixes
      • Fix logic in checking an empty From address
      • Fix Imap crash in cmd_parse_expunge()
      • Fix setting attributes with S-Lang
      • Fix: redrawing of $pager_index_lines
      • Fix progress percentage for syncing large mboxes
      • Fix sidebar drawing in presence of indentation + named mailboxes
      • Fix retrieval of drafts when “postponed” is not in the mailboxes list
      • Do not add comments to address group terminators
      • Fix alias sorting for degenerate addresses
      • Fix attaching emails
      • Create directories for nonexistent file hcache case
      • Avoid creating mailboxes for failed subscribes
      • Fix crash if rejecting cert
    • Changed Config
      • Add $copy_decode_weed, $pipe_decode_weed, $print_decode_weed
      • Change default of $crypt_protected_headers_subject to “…”
      • Add default keybindings to history-up/down
    • Translations
      • 100% Czech
      • 100% Spanish
    • Build
      • Allow building against Lua 5.4
      • Fix when sqlite3.h is missing
    • Docs
      • Add a brief section on stty to the manual
      • Update section “Terminal Keybindings” in the manual
      • Clarify PGP Pseudo-header S<id> duration
    • Code
      • Clean up String API
      • Make the Sidebar more independent
      • De-centralise the Config Variables
      • Refactor dialogs
      • Refactor: Help Bar generation
      • Make more APIs Context-free
      • Adjust the edata use in Maildir and Notmuch
      • Window refactoring
      • Convert libsend to use Config functions
      • Refactor notifications to reduce noise
      • Convert Keymaps to use STAILQ
      • Track currently selected email by msgid
      • Config: no backing global variable
      • Add events for key binding
    • Upstream
      • Fix imap postponed mailbox use-after-free error
      • Speed up thread sort when many long threads exist
      • Fix ~v tagging when switching to non-threaded sorting
      • Add message/global to the list of known “message” types
      • Print progress meter when copying/saving tagged messages
      • Remove ansi formatting from autoview generated quoted replies
      • Change postpone mode to write Date header too
      • Unstuff format=flowed
  • Update to 20200626:

    • Bug Fixes
      • Avoid opening the same hcache file twice
      • Re-open Mailbox after folder-hook
      • Fix the matching of the spoolfile Mailbox
      • Fix link-thread to link all tagged emails
    • Changed Config
      • Add $tunnel_is_secure config, defaulting to true
    • Upstream
      • Don’t check IMAP PREAUTH encryption if $tunnel is in use
      • Add recommendation to use $ssl_force_tls
  • Changes from 20200501:

    • Security
      • Abort GnuTLS certificate check if a cert in the chain is rejected
        CVE-2020-14154 boo#1172906
      • TLS: clear data after a starttls acknowledgement CVE-2020-14954
        boo#1173197
      • Prevent possible IMAP MITM via PREAUTH response CVE-2020-14093
        boo#1172935
    • Features
      • add config operations +=/-= for number,long
      • Address book has a comment field
      • Query menu has a comment field
    • Contrib sample.neomuttrc-starter: Do not echo prompted password
    • Bug Fixes
      • make “news://” and “nntp://” schemes interchangeable
      • Fix CRLF to LF conversion in base64 decoding
      • Double comma in query
      • compose: fix redraw after history
      • Crash inside empty query menu
      • mmdf: fix creating new mailbox
      • mh: fix creating new mailbox
      • mbox: error out when an mbox/mmdf is a pipe
      • Fix list-reply by correct parsing of List-Post headers
      • Decode references according to RFC2047
      • fix tagged message count
      • hcache: fix keylen not being considered when building the full key
      • sidebar: fix path comparison
      • Don’t mess with the original pattern when running IMAP searches
      • Handle IMAP “NO” resps by issuing a msg instead of failing badly
      • imap: use the connection delimiter if provided
      • Memory leaks
    • Changed Config
      • $alias_format default changed to include %c comment
      • $query_format default changed to include %e extra info
    • Translations
      • 100% Lithuanian
      • 84% French
      • Log the translation in use
    • Docs
      • Add missing commands unbind, unmacro to man pages
    • Build
      • Check size of long using LONG_MAX instead of __WORDSIZE
      • Allow ./configure to not record cflags
      • fix out-of-tree build
      • Avoid locating gdbm symbols in qdbm library
    • Code
      • Refactor unsafe TAILQ returns
      • add window notifications
      • flip negative ifs
      • Update to latest acutest.h
      • test: add store tests
      • test: add compression tests
      • graphviz: email
      • make more opcode info available
      • refactor: main_change_folder()
      • refactor: mutt_mailbox_next()
      • refactor: generate_body()
      • compress: add {min,max}_level to ComprOps
      • emphasise empty loops: “// do nothing”
      • prex: convert is_from() to use regex
      • Refactor IMAP’s search routines
  • Update to 20200501:

    • Bug Fixes
      • Make sure buffers are initialized on error
      • fix(sidebar): use abbreviated path if possible
    • Translations
      • 100% Lithuanian
    • Docs
      • make header cache config more explicit
  • Changes from 20200424:

    • Bug Fixes
      • Fix history corruption
      • Handle pretty much anything in a URL query part
      • Correctly parse escaped characters in header phrases
      • Fix crash reading received header
      • Fix sidebar indentation
      • Avoid crashing on failure to parse an IMAP mailbox
      • Maildir: handle deleted emails correctly
      • Ensure OP_NULL is always first
    • Translations
      • 100% Czech
    • Build
      • cirrus: enable pcre2, make pkgconf a special case
      • Fix finding pcre2 w/o pkgconf
      • build: tdb.h needs size_t, bring it in with stddef.h
  • Changes from 20200417:

    • Features
      • Fluid layout for Compose Screen, see: vimeo.com/407231157
      • Trivial Database (TDB) header cache backend
      • RocksDB header cache backend
      • Add <sidebar-first> and <sidebar-last> functions
    • Bug Fixes
      • add error for CLI empty emails
      • Allow spaces and square brackets in paths
      • browser: fix hidden mailboxes
      • fix initial email display
      • notmuch: fix time window search.
      • fix resize bugs
      • notmuch: fix entire-thread: update current email pointer
      • sidebar: support indenting and shortening of names
      • Handle variables inside backticks in sidebar_whitelist
      • browser: fix mask regex error reporting
    • Translations
      • 100% Lithuanian
      • 99% Chinese (simplified)
    • Build
      • Use regexes for common parsing tasks: urls, dates
      • Add configure option --pcre2 – Enable PCRE2 regular expressions
      • Add configure option --tdb – Use TDB for the header cache
      • Add configure option --rocksdb – Use RocksDB for the header cache
      • Create libstore (key/value backends)
      • Update to latest autosetup
      • Update to latest acutest.h
      • Rename doc/ directory to docs/
      • make: fix location of .Po dependency files
      • Change libcompress to be more universal
      • Fix test fails on ��32
      • fix uidvalidity to unsigned 32-bit int
    • Code
      • Increase test coverage
      • Fix memory leaks
      • Fix null checks
    • Upstream
      • Buffer refactoring
      • Fix use-after-free in mutt_str_replace()
      • Clarify PGP Pseudo-header S<id> duration
      • Try to respect MUTT_QUIET for IMAP contexts too
      • Limit recurse depth when parsing mime messages
  • Update to 20200320:

    • Bug Fixes
      • Fix COLUMNS env var
      • Fix sync after delete
      • Fix crash in notmuch
      • Fix sidebar indent
      • Fix emptying trash
      • Fix command line sending
      • Fix reading large address lists
      • Resolve symlinks only when necessary
    • Translations
      • lithuania 100% Lithuanian
      • es 96% Spanish
    • Docs
      • Include OpenSSL/LibreSSL/GnuTLS version in neomutt -v output
      • Fix case of GPGME and SQLite
    • Build
      • Create libcompress (lz4, zlib, zstd)
      • Create libhistory
      • Create libbcache
      • Move zstrm to libconn
    • Code
      • Add more test coverage
      • Rename magic to type
      • Use mutt_file_fopen() on config variables
      • Change commands to use intptr_t for data
  • Update to 20200313:

    • Window layout
      • Sidebar is only visible when it’s usable.
    • Features
      • UI: add number of old messages to sidebar_format
      • UI: support ISO 8601 calendar date
      • UI: fix commands that don���t need to have a non-empty mailbox to be
        valid
      • PGP: inform about successful decryption of inline PGP messages
      • PGP: try to infer the signing key from the From address
      • PGP: enable GPGMe by default
      • Notmuch: use query as name for vfolder-from-query
      • IMAP: add network traffic compression (COMPRESS=DEFLATE, RFC4978)
      • Header cache: add support for generic header cache compression
    • Bug Fixes
      • Fix uncollapse_jump
      • Only try to perform entire-thread on maildir/mh mailboxes
      • Fix crash in pager
      • Avoid logging single new lines at the end of header fields
      • Fix listing mailboxes
      • Do not recurse a non-threaded message
      • Fix initial window order
      • Fix leaks on IMAP error paths
      • Notmuch: compose(attach-message): support notmuch backend
      • Fix IMAP flag comparison code
      • Fix $move for IMAP mailboxes
      • Maildir: maildir_mbox_check_stats should only update mailbox stats
        if requested
      • Fix unmailboxes for virtual mailboxes
      • Maildir: sanitize filename before hashing
      • OAuth: if ‘login’ name isn’t available use ‘user’
      • Add error message on failed encryption
      • Fix a bunch of crashes
      • Force C locale for email date
      • Abort if run without a terminal
    • Changed Config
      • $crypt_use_gpgme - Now defaults to ‘yes’ (enabled)
      • $abort_backspace - Hitting backspace against an empty prompt aborts
        the prompt
      • $abort_key - String representation of key to abort prompts
      • $arrow_string - Use an custom string for arrow_cursor
      • $crypt_opportunistic_encrypt_strong_keys - Enable encryption
        only when strong a key is available
      • $header_cache_compress_dictionary - Filepath to dictionary for zstd
        compression
      • $header_cache_compress_level - Level of compression for method
      • $header_cache_compress_method - Enable generic hcache database
        compression
      • $imap_deflate - Compress network traffic
      • $smtp_user - Username for the SMTP server
    • Translations
      • 100% Lithuanian
      • 81% Spanish
      • 78% Russian
    • Build
      • Add libdebug
      • Rename public headers to lib.h
      • Create libcompress for compressed folders code
    • Code
      • Refactor Windows and Dialogs
      • Lots of code tidying
      • Refactor: mutt_addrlist_{search,write}
      • Lots of improvements to the Config code
      • Use Buffers more pervasively
      • Unify API function naming
      • Rename library shared headers
      • Refactor libconn gui dependencies
      • Refactor: init.[ch]
      • Refactor config to use subsets
      • Config: add path type
      • Remove backend deps from the connection code
    • Upstream
      • Allow ~b ~B ~h patterns in send2-hook
      • Rename smime oppenc mode parameter to get_keys_by_addr()
      • Add $crypt_opportunistic_encrypt_strong_keys config var
      • Fix crash when polling a closed ssl connection
      • Turn off auto-clear outside of autocrypt initialization
      • Add protected-headers=“v1” to Content-Type when protecting headers
      • Fix segv in IMAP postponed menu caused by reopen_allow
      • Adding ISO 8601 calendar date
      • Fix $fcc_attach to not prompt in batch mode
      • Convert remaining mutt_encode_path() call to use struct Buffer
      • Fix rendering of replacement_char when Charset_is_utf8
      • Update to latest acutest.h
  • Update to 20191207:

    • Features:
      • compose: draw status bar with highlights
    • Bug Fixes:
      • crash opening notmuch mailbox
      • crash in mutt_autocrypt_ui_recommendation
      • Avoid negative allocation
      • Mbox new mail
      • Setting of DT_MAILBOX type variables from Lua
      • imap: empty cmdbuf before connecting
      • imap: select the mailbox on reconnect
      • compose: fix attach message
    • Build:
      • make files conditional
    • Code:
      • enum-ify log levels
      • fix function prototypes
      • refactor virtual email lookups
      • factor out global Context
  • Changes from 20191129:

    • Features:
      • Add raw mailsize expando (%cr)
    • Bug Fixes:
      • Avoid double question marks in bounce confirmation msg
      • Fix bounce confirmation
      • fix new-mail flags and behaviour
      • fix: browser <descend-directory>
      • fix ssl crash
      • fix move to trash
      • fix flickering
      • Do not check hidden mailboxes for new mail
      • Fix new_mail_command notifications
      • fix crash in examine_mailboxes()
      • fix crash in mutt_sort_threads()
      • fix: crash after sending
      • Fix crash in tunnel’s conn_close
      • fix fcc for deep dirs
      • imap: fix crash when new mail arrives
      • fix colour ‘quoted9’
      • quieten messages on exit
      • fix: crash after failed mbox_check
      • browser: default to a file/dir view when attaching a file
    • Changed Config:
      • Change $write_bcc to default off
    • Docs:
      • Add a bit more documentation about sending
      • Clarify $write_bcc documentation.
      • Update documentation for raw size expando
      • docbook: set generate.consistent.ids to make generated html
        reproducible
    • Build:
      • fix build/tests for 32-bit arches
      • tests: fix test that would fail soon
      • tests: fix context for failing idna tests
  • Update to 20191111: Bug fixes:

    • browser: fix directory view
    • fix crash in mutt_extract_token()
    • force a screen refresh
    • fix crash sending message from command line
    • notmuch: use nm_default_uri if no mailbox data
    • fix forward attachments
    • fix: vfprintf undefined behaviour in body_handler
    • Fix relative symlink resolution
    • fix: trash to non-existent file/dir
    • fix re-opening of mbox Mailboxes
    • close logging as late as possible
    • log unknown mailboxes
    • fix crash in command line postpone
    • fix memory leaks
    • fix icommand parsing
    • fix new mail interaction with mail_check_recent

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or “zypper patch”.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • openSUSE Leap 15.2:

    zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-2127=1

  • openSUSE Leap 15.1:

    zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-2127=1

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
openSUSE Leap15.2x86_64< - openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):.x86_64.rpm
openSUSE Leap15.2noarch< - openSUSE Leap 15.2 (noarch):- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (noarch):.noarch.rpm
openSUSE Leap15.1x86_64< - openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):.x86_64.rpm
openSUSE Leap15.1noarch< - openSUSE Leap 15.1 (noarch):- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (noarch):.noarch.rpm

5.9 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

5.8 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N