[Frugalware-security] [ FSA-206 ] mutt-devel

voroskoi noreply at frugalware.org
Fri Jun 8 10:00:06 CEST 2007


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Frugalware Security Advisory                           FSA-206

Date: 2007-06-08
Package: mutt-devel
Vulnerable versions: <= 1.5.14-1
Unaffected versions: >= 1.5.14-2terminus1
Related bugreport: http://bugs.frugalware.org/task/2139
CVE: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2683

Description
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A vulnerability has been reported in mutt, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges. Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code with another user's privileges, but requires that the malicious user has a specially crafted realname and exists in the target user's alias file.
Also fixes http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2846

Updated Packages
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Check if you have mutt-devel installed:

	# pacman -Q mutt-devel

If found, then you should upgrade to the latest version:

	# pacman -Sy mutt-devel

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