Beatrice Torracca and Evgeni Golov discovered a buffer overflow in the mutt mailreader. Malformed RFC2047 header lines could result in denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.20-9+squeeze3. For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.21-6.2+deb7u2. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.22-2. We recommend that you upgrade your mutt packages.

Mutt is a sophisticated text-based Mail User Agent. Some highlights:

mutt on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2874.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25