Package name mutt
Date April 1st, 2003
Advisory ID MDKSA-2003:041
Affected versions 8.2, 9.0, 9.1

Problem Description

A vulnerability was discovered in the mutt text-mode email client in
the IMAP code. This vulnerability can be exploited by a malicious
IMAP server to crash mutt or even execute arbitrary code with the
privilege of the user running mutt.

Updated Packages

Mandrakelinux 8.2

 3331fb07b8a3f09bfadb93cb0f2ca964  8.2/RPMS/mutt-1.3.28i-1.2mdk.i586.rpm
d2d2d6b4498fa9eb320ac8042dda65ac  8.2/SRPMS/mutt-1.3.28i-1.2mdk.src.rpm

Mandrakelinux 8.2/PPC

 e144a8dcc0465dac8273be2354d6dc84  ppc/8.2/RPMS/mutt-1.3.28i-1.2mdk.ppc.rpm
d2d2d6b4498fa9eb320ac8042dda65ac  ppc/8.2/SRPMS/mutt-1.3.28i-1.2mdk.src.rpm

Mandrakelinux 9.0

 a46c10cf5f6d6279069c409668a21fbc  9.0/RPMS/mutt-1.4.1i-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
b836f11d978e3236ad909d703009df16  9.0/SRPMS/mutt-1.4.1i-1.1mdk.src.rpm

Mandrakelinux 9.1

 2780b36dbe40cde4746fc227c93cc559  9.1/RPMS/mutt-1.4.1i-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
b836f11d978e3236ad909d703009df16  9.1/SRPMS/mutt-1.4.1i-1.1mdk.src.rpm

Mandrakelinux 9.1/PPC

 e9029a9b2dca01e71d9f8a5f6a3663ef  ppc/9.1/RPMS/mutt-1.4.1i-1.1mdk.ppc.rpm
b836f11d978e3236ad909d703009df16  ppc/9.1/SRPMS/mutt-1.4.1i-1.1mdk.src.rpm

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0140

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Verification

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		rpm --checksig package.rpm
		

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