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Mutt GECOS Name Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA25408
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Release Date:
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2007-05-28
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Popularity:
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6,083 views
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Critical:
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Not critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Mutt 1.4.x
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in mutt, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
A boundary error in the "mutt_gecos_name()" function when processing "&" characters in the GECOS field can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow during alias expansion.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code with another user's privileges, but requires that the malicious user has a specially crafted realname and exists in the target user's alias file.
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