Debian Security Advisory
DSA-268-1 mutt -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 25 Mar 2003
- Affected Packages:
- mutt
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 7120.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0140. - More information:
-
Core Security Technologies discovered a buffer overflow in the IMAP code of Mutt, a text-oriented mail reader supporting IMAP, MIME, GPG, PGP and threading. This problem allows a remote malicious IMAP server to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted mail folder.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.28-2.1.
The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected by this problem.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.4-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your mutt package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.