SuSE Security Announcement

1 Oct 1999

A security hole was discovered in the package mentioned above.
Please update as soon as possible or disable the service if you are using
this software on your SuSE Linux installation(s).

Other Linux distributions or operating systems might be affected as
well, please contact your vendor for information about this issue.

Please note, that that we provide this information on "as-is" basis only.
There is no warranty whatsoever and no liability for any direct, indirect or
incidental damage arising from this information or the installation of
the update package.
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1. Problem Description

  The mutt package has got a buffer overflow.

2. Impact

  A "bad guy" could run processes with the previliges of the user using mutt
  by sending a malicious formated e-mail.
  These security bug leads to local and remote non-root, and possible root,
  compromise of the system.

3. Solution

  Updated the package from our FTP server.
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Here are the md5 checksums of the upgrade packages, please verify these
before installing the new packages:

  ed225966cae7c6d8d0c0f2a522c7e000  mutt-1.0pre3i-1.alpha.rpm (AXP 6.1)
  db82aa0d37d7729008112f26b1a271a6  mutt-1.0pre3i-1.src.rpm   (AXP 6.1 Src)
  f1167ae910d6e542923d88be2e1a8fee  mutt-1.0pre3i-1.i386.rpm  (x86 6.1)
  82098ce4f1c82481e06e97d511f878ab  mutt-1.0pre3i-1.src.rpm   (x86 6.1 Src)
  8412cd2f82d838bad5d21e4f628fdbe7  mutt-1.0pre3i-0.i386.rpm  (x86 6.2)
  27613b0e89508c4724df9098a8418d88  mutt-1.0pre3i-0.src.rpm   (x86 6.2 Src)

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You will find the update on our ftp-Server:
  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.1/n1/mutt-1.0pre3i-1.alpha.rpm
  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.1/zq1/mutt-1.0pre3i-1.src.rpm
  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/n1/mutt-1.0pre3i-1.i386.rpm
  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/zq1/mutt-1.0pre3i-1.src.rpm
  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/n1/mutt-1.0pre3i-0.i386.rpm
  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/zq1/mutt-1.0pre3i-0.src.rpm

Webpage for patches:
  http://www.suse.de/patches/index.html

or try the following web pages for a list of mirrors:
  http://www.suse.de/ftp.html
  http://www.suse.com/ftp_new.html

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If you want to report *NEW* security bugs in the SuSE Linux Distribution
please send an email to security@suse.de or call our support line.
You may use pgp with the public key below to ensure confidentiality.
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  This information is provided freely to everyone interested and may
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