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mutt Attachment Decoding Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA16485
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Release Date:
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2005-08-22
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Popularity:
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6,003 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Unpatched
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| Software: | Mutt 1.4.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2005-2642
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Description:
Frank Denis and Peter Valchev have reported a vulnerability in mutt, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in handler.c when decoding certain e-mail attachments and can potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
Successful exploitation may require that libiconv/gettext is compiled against certain versions of libc.
The vulnerability has been reported in versions 1.4.2 (stable) and 1.5.9 (snapshot).
Solution:
Filter e-mail attachments in a gateway.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Frank Denis and Peter Valchev
Original Advisory:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.mutt.devel/8379
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