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USN-2147-1: Mutt vulnerability

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USN-2147-1: Mutt vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/14/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/08/2014
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Buffer overflow in copy.c in Mutt before 1.5.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted RFC2047 header line, related to address expansion.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-mutt
  • ubuntu-upgrade-mutt-patched

References

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