DSA-274-1 mutt -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-274-1 mutt -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

28 Mar 2003

Affected Packages:

mutt

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 7229.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0167.

More information:

Byrial Jensen discovered a couple of off-by-one buffer overflow in the IMAP code of Mutt, a text-oriented mail reader supporting IMAP, MIME, GPG, PGP and threading. This problem could potentially allow 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 1.3.28-2.2.

The old stable distribution (potato) is also affected by this problem and an update will follow.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.0 and above.

We recommend that you upgrade your mutt package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5-5.2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5-5.2.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5-5.2_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5-5.2_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5-5.2_i386.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5-5.2_m68k.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5-5.2_powerpc.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5-5.2_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.2.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_1.3.28-2.2_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.2_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.2_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.2_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.2_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.2_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.2_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.2_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.2_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.2_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.2_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.2_sparc.deb

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

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