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Severity
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Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was reported in the muttsubstrdup() function in Mutt. Opening a specially-crafted mail message could cause mutt to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code.

CVE request:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/5

In testing on Fedora, "set weed=no" had to be set in the user's .muttrc before the issue presented.

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Source: Red Hat
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