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Buffer overflow in Mutt 1.4

Affected packages
1.4 <= ja-mutt < 1.4.2
1.4 <= mutt < 1.4.2

Details

VuXML ID 67c05283-5d62-11d8-80e3-0020ed76ef5a
Discovery 2004-02-11
Entry 2004-02-12

Mutt 1.4 contains a buffer overflow that could be exploited with a specially formed message, causing Mutt to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

CVE Name CVE-2004-0078
URL http://www.mutt.org/news.html