[PLDSA 46-1] New mutt packages fix arbitrary code execution

[Krzysiek Taraszka]

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PLD Security Advisory PLDSA 46-1                        security at pld.org.pl
http://www.pld.org.pl/security/                          PLD Security Team
22 March 2003				http://www.pld.org.pl/security/faq
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Package        : prior to mutt-1.4-4
Vulnerability  : buffer overflow
Problem-Type   : remote
PLD-specific   : no
CVE references : CAN-2003-0140

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.

The above problems have been fixed in version 1.4.1-1 for the
current stable distribution (ra).

We recommend that you upgrade your mutt packages.

wget -c url
	will fetch the file for you
rpm -Uhv file(s)*.rpm
        will upgrade the referenced file.

If you are using "poldek" - the package manager, use the line as given below
for upgrade packages

poldek --update
        will update the internal database
poldek --upgrade 'mutt*'
        will install corrected packages

If you are using "apt" - the package manager, use the line as given below
for upgrade packages

apt-get update
        will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade 'mutt*'
        will install corrected packages

PLD Linux 1.0 alias ra
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  Source archives:

ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/dists/ra/updates/security/SRPMS/mutt-1.4.1-1.src.rpm
       MD5 checksum: 39807c578761d1bddfb3857efc8326cc

  I386 Architecture components:

ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/dists/ra/updates/security/i386/mutt-1.4.1-1.i386.rpm
       MD5 checksum: f2c659107cedba8e866cae417832ee19


  I586 Architecture components:

ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/dists/ra/updates/security/i586/mutt-1.4.1-1.i586.rpm
       MD5 checksum: a6f1f5461a1988875187b1a3c6acab71


  I686 Architecture components:

ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/dists/ra/updates/security/i686/mutt-1.4.1-1.i686.rpm
       MD5 checksum: 0f83100385c7bd9e6c06a509452930a3


  PowerPC Architecture components:

ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/dists/ra/updates/security/ppc/mutt-1.4.1-1.ppc.rpm
       MD5 checksum: 3c6b9329f585c108463eb67923d2cdf2


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If you are using poldek add this line to poldek.conf.
If you are using apt-get add this line to sources.list.

For i386 architecture
poldek:         source = ra-updates-security ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/dists/ra/updates/security/i386/
apt-get:        rpm ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/dists ra/apt/i386 base updates-security
For i586 architecture
poldek:         source = ra-updates-security ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/dists/ra/updates/security/i586/
apt-get:        rpm ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/dists ra/apt/i586 base updates-security
For i686 architecture
poldek:         source = ra-updates-security ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/dists/ra/updates/security/i686/
apt-get:        rpm ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/dists ra/apt/i686 base updates-security
For ppc architecture
poldek:         source = ra-updates-security ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/dists/ra/updates/security/ppc/
apt-get:        rpm ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/dists ra/apt/ppc base updates-security