DSA-1108-1 mutt -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1108-1 mutt -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

11 Jul 2006

Affected Packages:

mutt

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 375828.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-3242.

More information:

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.

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.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.9-2sarge2_sparc.deb

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