Summary
The remote host is missing an update to mutt
announced via advisory DSA 274-2.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20274-2
Insight
Byrial Jensen discovered a couple of off-by-one buffer overflow in the IMAP code of Mutt, a text-oriented mail reader supporting IMAP, MIME, GPG, PGP and threading. This problem could potentially allow a remote malicious IMAP server to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted mail folder.
This advisory only covers the old stable distribution (potato) since DSA 274-1 already fixed the stable distribution (woody). For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.5-5.2.
We recommend that you upgrade your mutt package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2003-0167 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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