Debian Security Advisory

DSA-096-2 mutt -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:
03 Jan 2002
Affected Packages:
mutt
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-0001.
More information:
Joost Pol found a buffer overflow in the address handling code of mutt (a popular mail user agent). Even though this is a one byte overflow this is exploitable.

This has been fixed upstream in version 1.2.5.1 and 1.3.25. The relevant patch has been added to version 1.2.5-5 of the Debian package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/mutt_1.2.5-5.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/mutt_1.2.5-5.dsc
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/mutt_1.2.5.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/mutt_1.2.5-5_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/mutt_1.2.5-5_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/mutt_1.2.5-5_i386.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/mutt_1.2.5-5_m68k.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/mutt_1.2.5-5_powerpc.deb
SPARC:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/mutt_1.2.5-5_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory. (DSA-096-2)