Debian: UPDATED: mutt buffer overflow vulnerability
Summary
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.
This advisory only covers the old stable distribution (potato) since
DSA 274-1 already fixed the stable distribution (woody). For the old
stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed in version
1.2.5-5.2.
We recommend that you upgrade your mutt package.
Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 590 8fb484ef4a54ae0b806136fd0c241a0b
Size/MD5 checksum: 21591 c9efb077c78cfd7b8239cc96cf3ad8fd
Size/MD5 checksum: 1973923 0ba5367059abdd55daceb82dce6be42f
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1130904 efa96771fd9e4d8c831b360e931e36f3
ARM architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1044368 dc804baf176435e04ae30ea742777aeb
Intel IA-32 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1018660 4649d3d1b48600caacf6a4ca93f12408
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1001078 215b72365791489d99907b4bca2a9a7b
PowerPC architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1050530 e3699e0ea5aa6f802825528929f5a529
Sun Sparc architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1047240 547236f863d5094f95f36d4ea6f4accc
For apt-get: deb Debian -- Security Information stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show