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Debian 10: DSA-4838-1 Critical: Mutt Memory Leak Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey January 25, 2021
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A cautionary notice concerning a memory overflow in Mutt, which may result in a possible service interruption on Debian platforms.
Tavis Ormandy discovered a memory leak flaw in the rfc822 group recipient parsing in Mutt, a text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading, which could result in de...
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Summary

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.10.1-2.1+deb10u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your mutt packages.

For the detailed security status of mutt please refer to its security
tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/mutt

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



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Package: mutt
CVE ID: CVE-2021-3181

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