Security Advisory (MDKSA-2003:041-1): mutt

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MandrakeSoft Security Advisory MDKSA-2003:041-1 : mutt

 

April 3rd, 2003

Updated mutt packages fix exploitable buffer overflow

 

A vulnerability was discovered in the mutt text-mode email client in the IMAP code. This vulnerability can be exploited by a malicious IMAP server to crash mutt or even execute arbitrary code with the privilege of the user running mutt.

 

Update:

 

The packages for Mandrake Linux 9.1 and 9.1/PPC were not GPG-signed.This has been fixed and as a result the md5sums have changed. Thanks to Mark Lyda for pointing this out.

 

 

The released versions of Mandrake GNU/Linux affected are:

• 9.1

 

[*] 9.1/PPC

Full information about this advisory, including the updated packages, is available at:

www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/advisory.php?name=MDKSA-2003:041-1

 

Other references:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?n...e=CAN-2003-0140

 

Posted automatically by aru (mdksec2mub v0.0.5)