Bug 197151

Summary: CVE-2006-3242 Mutt IMAP namespace buffer overflow
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: muttAssignee: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: 4.0Keywords: Security
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Whiteboard: source=cve,reported=20060627,impact=moderate,public=20060619
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2006-0577 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Josh Bressers 2006-06-28 20:58:16 UTC
Mutt IMAP namespace buffer overflow

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way mutt processes an overly
long namespace from a malicious imap server.  In order to exploit this
flaw a user would have to connect to a malicious IMAP server.

http://secunia.com/advisories/20810


This issue also affects RHEL3
This issue also affects RHEL2.1

Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-07-12 18:13:26 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0577.html