Published: 27/02/2002 Updated: 18/10/2016

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 668

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability in RFC822 address parser in mutt prior to 1.2.5.1 and mutt 1.3.x prior to 1.3.25 allows remote malicious users to execute arbitrary commands via an improperly terminated comment or phrase in the address list.

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Joost Pol found a buffer overflow in the address handling code of mutt (a popular mail user agent) Even though this is a one byte overflow this is exploitable This has been fixed upstream in version 1251 and 1325 The relevant patch has been added to version 125-5 of the Debian package ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-096 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-003.html http://www.mutt.org/announce/mutt-1.2.5.1-1.3.25.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2002_001_mutt_txt.html ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:04.mutt.asc http://online.securityfocus.com/advisories/3778 ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-002.0.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3774 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7759.php http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000449 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100994648918287&w=2 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-096

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