Bug 109317 - mutt segfaults reading inbox
Summary: mutt segfaults reading inbox
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mutt
Version: 1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-11-06 19:59 UTC by Adrian Likins
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:40 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-05-27 16:02:39 UTC
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Description Adrian Likins 2003-11-06 19:59:27 UTC
Description of problem:
got a pile of new mail this morning. Mostly spam, when
scrolling though the index deleting everything, mutt 
segfaulted. 

Closer look seems to indicate just reading a particular
message causes a segfault. I'll attach the inbox file
that causes the crash. Just:

mutt -f /tmp/folder 

and scroll though the index.

Since this is a segfault on untrusted data, its possibly
a security issue, so flagging as such.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
[alikins@sludge alikins]$ rpm -q mutt
mutt-1.4.1-4


How reproducible:
easy

Steps to Reproduce:
see above

Comment 3 Adrian Likins 2003-11-06 20:50:21 UTC
yeah, down arrow in the index view for that folder crashes for me


Hmm, weird. Trying it in a different terminal window and it
doesnt segfault. Maybe its related to term size or something

Comment 4 Mark J. Cox 2004-01-27 12:27:04 UTC
Bill said "It was fixed in the development branch of mutt on 2002-02-13:
date: 2002/02/13 09:53:33;  author: roessler;  state: Exp;  lines: +4
-21 Fix mutt_pad_string; from Edmund Grimley Evans.  (MAY NEED TO BE
BACKPORTED.)"




Comment 5 Mark J. Cox 2004-01-27 12:30:02 UTC
Allocated CAN-2004-0078 for this issue; treating still as embargoed
until we've backported, told vendor-sec and upstream etc.

Comment 6 Mark J. Cox 2004-05-27 10:36:01 UTC
Removing embargo, this became public in February:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=107651677817933&w=2


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