Debian Security Advisory DSA 268-1 (mutt) describes a buffer overflow in Mutt's IMAP code, allowing a remote malicious server to cause denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted mail folder. It recommends upgrading the mutt package
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 19 |
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Tenable Nessus | Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mutt (MDKSA-2003:041-1) | 31 Jul 200400:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Debian DSA-268-1 : mutt - buffer overflow | 29 Sep 200400:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | SUSE-SA:2003:020: mutt | 25 Jul 200400:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | RHEL 2.1 : balsa (RHSA-2003:111) | 6 Jul 200400:00 | – | nessus |
Debian | [SECURITY] [DSA 268-1] New mutt packages fix arbitrary code execution | 25 Mar 200315:04 | – | debian |
Debian | [SECURITY] [DSA 268-1] New mutt packages fix arbitrary code execution | 25 Mar 200315:04 | – | debian |
OSV | mutt - buffer overflow | 25 Mar 200300:00 | – | osv |
SUSE Linux | remote system compromise in mutt | 24 Mar 200313:56 | – | suse |
Debian CVE | CVE-2003-0140 | 24 Mar 200305:00 | – | debiancve |
Debian CVE | CVE-2003-0167 | 2 Apr 200305:00 | – | debiancve |
Source | Link |
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securityfocus | www.securityfocus.com/bid/7120 |
secure1 | www.secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc.
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53724");
script_version("2023-07-19T05:05:15+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-19 05:05:15 +0000 (Wed, 19 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2008-01-17 22:28:10 +0100 (Thu, 17 Jan 2008)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2003-0140");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.5");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_name("Debian Security Advisory DSA 268-1 (mutt)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2008 E-Soft Inc.");
script_family("Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/debian_linux", "ssh/login/packages", re:"ssh/login/release=DEB3\.0");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20268-1");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7120");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Core Security Technologies discovered a buffer overflow in the IMAP
code of Mutt, a text-oriented mail reader supporting IMAP, MIME, GPG,
PGP and threading. This problem allows a remote malicious IMAP server
to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary
code via a specially crafted mail folder.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.3.28-2.1.
The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected by this problem.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.5.4-1.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"We recommend that you upgrade your mutt package.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update to mutt
announced via advisory DSA 268-1.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");
res = "";
report = "";
if((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"mutt", ver:"1.3.28-2.1", rls:"DEB3.0")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"mutt-utf8", ver:"1.3.28-2.1", rls:"DEB3.0")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
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