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mutt: IMAP namespace buffer overflow

Package(s):mutt CVE #(s):CVE-2006-3242
Created:June 28, 2006 Updated:October 24, 2006
Description: TAKAHASHI Tamotsu discovered that mutt's IMAP backend did not sufficiently check the validity of namespace strings. If an user connects to a malicious IMAP server, that server could exploit this to crash mutt or even execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the mutt user. See this Secunia advisory for more information.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1061 2006-10-24
Slackware SSA:2006-207-01 2006-07-27
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.013 2006-07-15
SuSE SUSE-SR:2006:016 2006-07-14
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0577-01 2006-07-12
Debian DSA-1108-1 2006-07-11
Fedora FEDORA-2006-761 2006-06-29
Fedora FEDORA-2006-760 2006-06-29
Trustix TSLSA-2006-0038 2006-06-30
rPath rPSA-2006-0116-1 2006-06-29
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:115 2006-06-28
Gentoo 200606-27 2006-06-28
Ubuntu USN-307-1 2006-06-28
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