[SECURITY] [DSA 268-1] New mutt packages fix arbitrary code execution

From: Martin Schulze (joeyat_private)
Date: Tue Mar 25 2003 - 07:04:17 PST

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    Debian Security Advisory DSA 268-1                     securityat_private
    http://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze
    March 25th, 2003                        http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package        : mutt
    Vulnerability  : buffer overflow
    Problem-Type   : remote
    Debian-specific: no
    Bugtraq ID     : 7120
    CVE Id         : CAN-2003-0140
    
    Core Security Technologies discovered a buffer overflow in the IMAP
    code of Mutt, a text-oriented mail reader supporting IMAP, MIME, GPG,
    PGP and threading.  This problem allows a remote malicious IMAP server
    to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary
    code via a specially crafted mail folder.
    
    For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
    version 1.3.28-2.1.
    
    The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected by this problem.
    
    For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
    version 1.5.4-1.
    
    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 3.0 alias woody
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      Source archives:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1.dsc
          Size/MD5 checksum:      715 c3057724009f05673b3c75bae5d251a3
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1.diff.gz
          Size/MD5 checksum:    50332 bb652f41e2606b8cadb2efcdf690ff49
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28.orig.tar.gz
          Size/MD5 checksum:  2540330 015e4fce09e323997d64ad455524be19
    
      Alpha architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_alpha.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:  1406670 bfe02cc93b3b062dc870045d38200659
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_alpha.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   457324 1721fd54a25cf63ec902eb1556c096d2
    
      ARM architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_arm.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:  1324028 813b7f5a2afab876fbb5a67c23d537c2
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_arm.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   381706 c08ae68a55e0672d6e8be8aaf0670c16
    
      Intel IA-32 architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_i386.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:  1301398 f20f7221425af30530cc4c32fa93c5d9
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_i386.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   360742 c37eb100e007a5afa6fbcc6174f01266
    
      Intel IA-64 architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_ia64.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:  1517926 fe637601654c1febf069346fdec86b9d
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_ia64.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   559014 06ddd5496426d2485d626be919d757cd
    
      HP Precision architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_hppa.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:  1373344 52a212f168a3e0c10b4125f5452fce83
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_hppa.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   427294 4b71238edb2937177ab340715c1e2870
    
      Motorola 680x0 architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_m68k.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:  1279036 250a83073d2e6c60b765b3eb129eda7a
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_m68k.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   338394 9a4d00486eee58cb71f9aafd4f1614e2
    
      Big endian MIPS architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_mips.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:  1350300 fe602f4e3f41413eebcafc26361ab0ad
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_mips.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   406784 f16f6e804bbafe0aa1b00d0f6600f25c
    
      Little endian MIPS architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_mipsel.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:  1348352 2f4c24dda0156a6f012796fa278929f0
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_mipsel.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   405042 569a82fe40e936f6786a9cdca87fa981
    
      PowerPC architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_powerpc.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:  1332422 621a5ccda35cc1c99e6d547674bc22e3
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_powerpc.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   390638 d838d8eb58b090ead913a723a4c4a90d
    
      IBM S/390 architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_s390.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:  1326880 a10e97f3442362f7e12594f5822cfa0e
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_s390.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   381996 6f30ee410a641c6b65942a52786013d9
    
      Sun Sparc architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.28-2.1_sparc.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:  1324220 a1310eb747b9565918952ac6fcc0d1fd
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt-utf8_1.3.28-2.1_sparc.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   376912 b493c279d05503c84a281a003f74a77d
    
    
      These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
      its next revision.
    
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