On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 11:12:07AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2020/06/20 10:51, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 11:59:38PM -0600, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > > CVSROOT:  /cvs
> > > Module name:      ports
> > > Changes by:       [email protected]   2020/06/18 23:59:38
> > > 
> > > Modified files:
> > >   mail/mutt      : Makefile distinfo 
> > > 
> > > Log message:
> > > update to mutt-1.14.4, fixes possible machine-in-the-middle response
> > > injection attack when using STARTTLS with IMAP, POP3, and SMTP.
> > 
> > 
> > Unfortunatly this breaks my configuration, that uses an ssh tunnels to
> > connect to the imap server ie :
> > 
> > account-hook imaps://imap.herrb.eu 'set tunnel="ssh -q imap.herrb.eu 
> > /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap"'
> > 
> > mutt exits with 'Encrypted connection unavailable'.
> > 
> > I've not seen any mention of 'set tunnel' beeing deprecated or broken
> > in mutt's release notes.
> > 
> > I guess it is bound to the MITM security issue. Wondering if this kind
> > of setup is vulnerable, or if it's a false positive.
> > 
> > I'm back to typing a password to read my mail for now...
> > 
> > -- 
> > Matthieu Herrb
> > 
> 
> https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/issues/250

Thanks. The workaround works for me.

-- 
Matthieu Herrb

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