[SECURITY] [DSA 274-2] New mutt packages fix arbitrary code execution in potato

Debian Security Advisory DSA 274-2 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
April 7th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : mutt
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id : CAN-2003-0167

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.

This advisory only covers the old stable distribution (potato) since
DSA 274-1 already fixed the stable distribution (woody). For the old
stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed in version
1.2.5-5.2.

We recommend that you upgrade your mutt package.

Upgrade Instructions

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

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

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5-5.2.dsc
  Size/MD5 checksum:      590 8fb484ef4a54ae0b806136fd0c241a0b
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5-5.2.diff.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:    21591 c9efb077c78cfd7b8239cc96cf3ad8fd
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5.orig.tar.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:  1973923 0ba5367059abdd55daceb82dce6be42f

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5-5.2_alpha.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:  1130904 efa96771fd9e4d8c831b360e931e36f3

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5-5.2_arm.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:  1044368 dc804baf176435e04ae30ea742777aeb

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5-5.2_i386.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:  1018660 4649d3d1b48600caacf6a4ca93f12408

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5-5.2_m68k.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:  1001078 215b72365791489d99907b4bca2a9a7b

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5-5.2_powerpc.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:  1050530 e3699e0ea5aa6f802825528929f5a529

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.2.5-5.2_sparc.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:  1047240 547236f863d5094f95f36d4ea6f4accc

For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: [email protected]
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/&lt;pkg&gt;