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| <title>Mutt: Buffer overflow</title> |
| <synopsis> |
| Mutt contains a buffer overflow that could result in arbitrary code |
| execution. |
| </synopsis> |
| <product type="ebuild">mutt</product> |
| <announced>June 28, 2006</announced> |
| <revised>June 28, 2006: 01</revised> |
| <bug>138125</bug> |
| <access>remote</access> |
| <affected> |
| <package name="mail-client/mutt" auto="yes" arch="*"> |
| <unaffected range="ge">1.5.11-r2</unaffected> |
| <vulnerable range="lt">1.5.11-r2</vulnerable> |
| </package> |
| </affected> |
| <background> |
| <p> |
| Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client. |
| </p> |
| </background> |
| <description> |
| <p> |
| TAKAHASHI Tamotsu has discovered that Mutt contains a boundary error in |
| the "browse_get_namespace()" function in browse.c, which can be |
| triggered when receiving an overly long namespace from an IMAP server. |
| </p> |
| </description> |
| <impact type="normal"> |
| <p> |
| A malicious IMAP server can send an overly long namespace to Mutt in |
| order to crash the application, and possibly execute arbitrary code |
| with the permissions of the user running Mutt. |
| </p> |
| </impact> |
| <workaround> |
| <p> |
| There is no known workaround at this time. |
| </p> |
| </workaround> |
| <resolution> |
| <p> |
| All Mutt users should upgrade to the latest version: |
| </p> |
| <code> |
| # emerge --sync |
| # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/mutt-1.5.11-r2"</code> |
| </resolution> |
| <references> |
| <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3242">CVE-2006-3242</uri> |
| </references> |
| <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:49:38 +0000"> |
| falco |
| </metadata> |
| <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:02:54 +0000"> |
| falco |
| </metadata> |
| <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Wed, 28 Jun 2006 10:14:15 +0000"> |
| falco |
| </metadata> |
| </glsa> |