CVE-2007-2683 Information

Description

Buffer overflow in Mutt 1.4.2 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via &\ characters in the GECOS field which triggers the overflow during alias expansion.

Reference

http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2885 http://osvdb.org/34973 http://secunia.com/advisories/25408 http://secunia.com/advisories/25515 http://secunia.com/advisories/25529 http://secunia.com/advisories/25546 http://secunia.com/advisories/26415 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:113 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0386.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24192 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018066 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0024/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239890 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34441 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1391 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10543