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Debian: DSA-2874-1 Critical: Mutt Buffer Overflow DoS Threat

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Calendar Grey March 12, 2014
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Enhance mutt to address significant buffer overflow vulnerabilities that could result in denial of service (DoS) or arbitrary code execution. Discover methods to protect your infrastructure.
Beatrice Torracca and Evgeni Golov discovered a buffer overflow in the mutt mailreader
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Summary

Beatrice Torracca and Evgeni Golov discovered a buffer overflow in the
mutt mailreader. Malformed RFC2047 header lines could result in denial
of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.5.20-9+squeeze3.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.5.21-6.2+deb7u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.5.22-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your mutt packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: mutt
CVE ID: CVE-2014-0467

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