DSA-268-1 mutt -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-268-1 mutt -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

25 Mar 2003

Affected Packages:

mutt

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 7120.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0140.

More information:

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.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.