Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1108-1 mutt -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 11 Jul 2006
- Affected Packages:
- mutt
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 375828.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-3242. - More information:
-
It was discovered that the mutt mail reader performs insufficient validation of values returned from an IMAP server, which might overflow a buffer and potentially lead to the injection of arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.9-2sarge2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.11+cvs20060403-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your mutt package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.