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Gentoo: GLSA 202311-45 Normal: Thunderbird Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey June 28, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
The Fedora Security Update 2021:1234 highlights a vulnerability in the kernel that may allow for privilege escalation.
Mutt contains a buffer overflow that could result in arbitrary code execution.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200606-27 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Mutt: Buffer overflow Date: June 28, 2006 Bugs: #138125 ID: 200606-27

Synopsis ======= Mutt contains a buffer overflow that could result in arbitrary code execution.
Background ========= Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 mail-client/mutt < 1.5.11-r2 >= 1.5.11-r2
========== TAKAHASHI Tamotsu has discovered that Mutt contains a boundary error in the "browse_get_namespace()" function in browse.c, which can be triggered when receiving an overly long namespace from an IMAP server.
Impact ===== A ma...

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