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.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.28-2.2.
The old stable distribution (potato) is also affected by this problem and an update will follow.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.0 and above.
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 3.0 alias woody --------------------------------