Fedora Core 6: 2007-539 Critical: Mutt Buffer Overflow and APOP Risk

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.

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)

- update to 1.4.2.3 (CVE-2007-2683, CVE-2007-1558)

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 .

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