Debian Security: DSA-096 mutt: buffer overflow

Debian: “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.”

Date Reported:

02 Jan 2002

Affected Packages:

mutt

Vulnerable:

Yes

More information:

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 1.2.5.1 and 1.3.25. The
relevant patch has been added to version 1.2.5-5 of the Debian
package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/mutt_1.2.5-5.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/mutt_1.2.5-5.dsc

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/mutt_1.2.5.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/mutt_1.2.5-5_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/mutt_1.2.5-5_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/mutt_1.2.5-5_i386.deb

Motorola 680×0:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/mutt_1.2.5-5_m68k.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/mutt_1.2.5-5_powerpc.deb

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

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