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Fedora Core 6 Update: mutt-1.4.2.3-1.fc6 Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Fedora The APOP protocol allows remote attackers to guess the first 3 characters of a password via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks that use crafted message IDs and MD5 collisions. Also, a Buffer overflow in Mutt 1.4.2 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via "&" characters in the GECOS field, which triggers the overflow during alias expansion.
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-539
2007-05-30
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Product     : Fedora Core 6
Name        : mutt
Version     : 1.4.2.3
Release     : 1.fc6
Summary     : A text mode mail user agent.
Description :
Mutt is a text-mode mail user agent. Mutt supports color, threading,
arbitrary key remapping, and a lot of customization.

You should install mutt if you have used it in the past and you prefer
it, or if you are new to mail programs and have not decided which one
you are going to use.

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Update Information:

This update fixes two security issues:

The APOP protocol allows remote attackers to guess the first
3 characters of a password via man-in-the-middle (MITM)
attacks that use crafted message IDs and MD5 collisions.
(CVE-2007-1558)

Buffer overflow in Mutt 1.4.2 might allow local users to
execute arbitrary code via "&" characters in the GECOS
field, which triggers the overflow during alias expansion.
(CVE-2007-2683)

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* Mon May 28 2007 Miroslav Lichvar  5:1.4.2.3-1.fc6
- update to 1.4.2.3 (CVE-2007-2683, CVE-2007-1558)

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This update can be downloaded from:
    http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/

95da57dc6d80ba28f234be812fdb04f23422d7e0  SRPMS/mutt-1.4.2.3-1.fc6.src.rpm
95da57dc6d80ba28f234be812fdb04f23422d7e0  noarch/mutt-1.4.2.3-1.fc6.src.rpm
1a88871576ce0a8d9d2c20173232eaf068089171  ppc/debug/mutt-debuginfo-1.4.2.3-1.fc6.ppc.rpm
4f2ff83e7734b6e8b562377af69cd28e8097a9a5  ppc/mutt-1.4.2.3-1.fc6.ppc.rpm
1c6db27e945e767cdca7b2b8cf16b19ffad97751  x86_64/debug/mutt-debuginfo-1.4.2.3-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
fd4c35d9244dbbb6ecadee874f231e3a6eb22ba5  x86_64/mutt-1.4.2.3-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
e071da29cd7d4cc14a8ecbeec6a93ec985da65de  i386/debug/mutt-debuginfo-1.4.2.3-1.fc6.i386.rpm
2911156283af56769a72e478297dd2919074a6ae  i386/mutt-1.4.2.3-1.fc6.i386.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program.  Use 'yum update
package-name' at the command line.  For more information, refer to 'Managing
Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/.
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