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TITLE:
mutt Attachment Decoding Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA16485

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16485/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Mutt 1.4.x
http://secunia.com/product/1305/

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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