Secunia Security Advisory - Mandriva has issued an update for mutt. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Mandriva update for mutt
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20879
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20879/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Mandriva Linux 2006
http://secunia.com/product/9020/
DESCRIPTION:
Mandriva has issued an update for mutt. This fixes a vulnerability,
which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service) and potentially compromise a user's system.
For more information:
SA20810
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.
-- Mandrivalinux 2006 --
76aff600c45f2144b4cce08bf54bb27a
2006.0/RPMS/mutt-1.5.9i-9.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
7e892d544ddfb5631bd299359b828ded
2006.0/RPMS/mutt-utf8-1.5.9i-9.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
9e5067db02225e3b35ce9dbdfe17050d
2006.0/SRPMS/mutt-1.5.9i-9.1.20060mdk.src.rpm
-- Mandrivalinux 2006/X86_64 --
7e6c0716940e1b9e19155d7af11bf1fa
x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/mutt-1.5.9i-9.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
f5315ffc0c03aa99fc7b106d4081e09d
x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/mutt-utf8-1.5.9i-9.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
9e5067db02225e3b35ce9dbdfe17050d
x86_64/2006.0/SRPMS/mutt-1.5.9i-9.1.20060mdk.src.rpm
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:115
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA20810:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20810/
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