Mutt buffer overflow in IMAP support

The mutt mail client packages in Slackware 8.1 and 9.0 have been upgraded to mutt-1.4.1i to fix a security problem discovered by Core Security Technologies. This issue may allow a remote attacker controlling a malicious IMAP server to execute code on your machine as the user running mutt if you...

[SECURITY] New versions of Mutt fixes buffer overflow

We have received a report from Paul Boehm stating that Mutt has an overflowable buffer in parse.c. When sending malicious mail you can execute arbitary code on the mutt running users system. We recommend you upgrade your Mutt package immediately. dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file...