Executive Summary

Summary
Title mutt vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-307-1 First vendor Publication 2006-06-28
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2006-06-28
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 5.04 Ubuntu 5.10 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 5.04:
mutt 1.5.6-20040907+2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 5.10:
mutt 1.5.9-2ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
mutt 1.5.11-3ubuntu2.1

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart mutt to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

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.

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-307-1

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10826
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10826
Title: Stack-based buffer overflow in the browse_get_namespace function in imap/browse.c of Mutt 1.4.2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via long namespaces received from the IMAP server.
Description: Stack-based buffer overflow in the browse_get_namespace function in imap/browse.c of Mutt 1.4.2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via long namespaces received from the IMAP server.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2006-3242
Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
CentOS Linux 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 4
Oracle Linux 4
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 2

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-02-27 Name : Fedora Update for mutt FEDORA-2007-540
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2007_540_mutt_fc5.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200606-27 (mutt)
File : nvt/glsa_200606_27.nasl
2008-09-04 Name : FreeBSD Ports: mutt, mutt-lite
File : nvt/freebsd_mutt0.nasl
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1108-1 (mutt)
File : nvt/deb_1108_1.nasl
0000-00-00 Name : Slackware Advisory SSA:2006-207-01 mutt
File : nvt/esoft_slk_ssa_2006_207_01.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
26814 Mutt imap/browse.c browse_get_namespace Function MAP Namespace Overflow

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-09-24 Name : The remote SuSE 9 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse9_11094.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-10 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-307-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-10-17 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_mutt-1701.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-01-17 Name : The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2006-1061.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-01-17 Name : The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2006-1063.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-01-17 Name : The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2006-760.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-01-17 Name : The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2006-761.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-10-14 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1108.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-07-28 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2006-207-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-07-13 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2006-0577.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-07-13 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2006-0577.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-07-03 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_d2a43243087b11dbbc360008743bf21a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-06-29 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200606-27.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-06-29 Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandrake_MDKSA-2006-115.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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