Ubuntu Security Notice 2147-1 - Beatrice Torracca and Evgeni Golov discovered a buffer overflow in mutt while expanding addresses when parsing email headers. An attacker could specially craft an email to cause mutt to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking mutt.
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==========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2147-1
March 13, 2014
mutt vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 13.10
- Ubuntu 12.10
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Summary:
The mutt mail client could be made to crash or run programs as your
login if it opened a specially crafted email.
Software Description:
- mutt: text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading
Details:
Beatrice Torracca and Evgeni Golov discovered a buffer overflow
in mutt while expanding addresses when parsing email headers. An
attacker could specially craft an email to cause mutt to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code
with the privileges of the user invoking mutt.
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 13.10:
mutt 1.5.21-6.4ubuntu1.1
mutt-patched 1.5.21-6.4ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu 12.10:
mutt 1.5.21-6ubuntu0.1
mutt-patched 1.5.21-6ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
mutt 1.5.21-5ubuntu2.1
mutt-patched 1.5.21-5ubuntu2.1
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
mutt 1.5.20-7ubuntu1.2
mutt-patched 1.5.20-7ubuntu1.2
After a standard system update you need to restart mutt to make
all the necessary changes.
References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2147-1
CVE-2014-0467
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutt/1.5.21-6.4ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutt/1.5.21-6ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutt/1.5.21-5ubuntu2.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutt/1.5.20-7ubuntu1.2