CVE
- Id
- 4395
- CVE No.
- CVE-2002-0001
- Status
- Candidate
- Description
- Vulnerability in RFC822 address parser in mutt before 1.2.5.1 and mutt 1.3.x before 1.3.25 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via an improperly terminated comment or phrase in the address list.
- Phase
- Modified (20050707)
- Votes
- ACCEPT(4) Baker, Cole, Green, Wall | MODIFY(1) Frech | NOOP(2) Christey, Foat
- Comments
- Christey> I need to review this for accuracy; is it just a buffer | overflow? See Mark Cox" comments in his "Chinese Whisper" | article. | Frech> XF:mutt-address-handling-bo(7759) | Christey> See Caldera advisory for a good, short description of the | issue. | BID:3774 | URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3774 | SUSE:SuSE-SA:2002:001 | URL:http://www.suse.de/de/support/security/2002_001_mutt_txt.html | CONECTIVA:CLA-2002:449 | DEBIAN:DSA-096 | FREEBSD:FreeBSD-SA-02:04 | HP:HPSBTL0201-011 | URL:http://online.securityfocus.com/advisories/3778 | CALDERA:CSSA-2002-002.0 | URL:http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2002-002.0.txt