National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-2642
Original release date:08/23/2005
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Buffer overflow in the mutt_decode_xbit function in Handler.c for Mutt 1.5.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, possibly due to interactions with libiconv or gettext.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006)
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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the Linux versions of Mutt.
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External Source: FULLDISC
Name: 20050818 mutt buffer overflow
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20050818 mutt buffer overflow
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: FULLDISC
Name: 20050818 Re: mutt buffer overflow
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1014729
Type: Advisory
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20050818 Re: mutt buffer overflow
External Source: BID
Name: 14596
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 16485
External Source: MISC
Name: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.mutt.devel/8379