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Family: Debian Local Security Checks --> Category: infos
[DSA268] DSA-268-1 mutt Vulnerability Scan
Vulnerability Scan Summary
DSA-268-1 mutt
Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Test
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.
Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-268
Threat Level: High
Click HERE for more information and discussions on this network vulnerability scan.
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