CVE-ID

CVE-2002-0001

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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.
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Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20020101 Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Modified (20050707)
Votes (Legacy)
ACCEPT(4) Baker, Cole, Green, Wall
MODIFY(1) Frech
NOOP(2) Christey, Foat
Comments (Legacy)
 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

Proposed (Legacy)
20020131
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