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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1108-1 (mutt)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

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Summary

The remote host is missing an update to mutt announced via advisory DSA 1108-1. 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.

Solution

Solution

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. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201108-1

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