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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.57105
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1108)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'mutt' package(s) announced via the DSA-1108 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'mutt' package(s) announced via the DSA-1108 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
It was discovered that the mutt mail reader performs insufficient validation of values returned from an IMAP server, which might overflow a buffer and potentially lead to the injection of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.9-2sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.11+cvs20060403-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your mutt package.

Affected Software/OS:
'mutt' package(s) on Debian 3.1.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.5

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-3242
BugTraq ID: 18642
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18642
Bugtraq: 20060629 rPSA-2006-0116-1 mutt (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438712/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-1108 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1108
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-27.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:115
http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.013-mutt.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10826
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0577.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016482
http://secunia.com/advisories/20810
http://secunia.com/advisories/20836
http://secunia.com/advisories/20854
http://secunia.com/advisories/20879
http://secunia.com/advisories/20887
http://secunia.com/advisories/20895
http://secunia.com/advisories/20960
http://secunia.com/advisories/21039
http://secunia.com/advisories/21124
http://secunia.com/advisories/21135
http://secunia.com/advisories/21220
SGI Security Advisory: 20060701-01-U
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060701-01-U
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.472221
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2006:016 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_16_sr.html
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0038
https://usn.ubuntu.com/307-1/
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2522
XForce ISS Database: mutt-imap-namespace-bo(27428)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27428
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