Debian Security Advisory
DSA-274-1 mutt -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 28 Mar 2003
- Affected Packages:
- mutt
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 7229.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0167. - More information:
-
Byrial Jensen discovered a couple of off-by-one buffer overflow in the IMAP code of Mutt, a text-oriented mail reader supporting IMAP, MIME, GPG, PGP and threading. This problem could potentially allow 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 1.3.28-2.2.
The old stable distribution (potato) is also affected by this problem and an update will follow.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.0 and above.
We recommend that you upgrade your mutt package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5-5.2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5-5.2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5-5.2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5-5.2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5-5.2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5-5.2_i386.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5-5.2_m68k.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5-5.2_powerpc.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5-5.2_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.2.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_1.3.28-2.2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the revised advisory.