Detections
Analytics

Debian DSA-300-1 : balsa - buffer overflow

high Nessus Plugin ID 15137

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Byrial Jensen discovered a couple of off-by-one buffer overflow in the IMAP code of Mutt, a text-oriented mail reader supporting IMAP, MIME, GPG, PGP and threading. This code is imported in the Balsa package.
This problem could potentially allow a remote malicious IMAP server to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted mail folder.

Solution

Upgrade the balsa package.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.4-2.2.

The old stable distribution (potato) does not seem to be affected by this problem.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-300

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 15137

File Name: debian_DSA-300.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:balsa, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/6/2003

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/6/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0167, CVE-2003-0299

BID: 7229

DSA: 300