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Debian Security Advisory DSA 274-2                     security@debian.org 
Debian -- Security Information                              Martin Schulze
April 7th, 2003                          Debian -- Debian security FAQ 
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Package        : mutt
Vulnerability  : buffer overflow
Problem-Type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id         : CAN-2003-0167

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
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  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


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