Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory #2004-0006
Package name: mutt
Summary: remote crash
Date: 2004-02-13
Affected versions: Trustix 2.0
Package description:
Mutt is a text mode mail user agent. Mutt supports color,
threading, arbitrary key remapping, and a lot of customization.
Problem description:
It was discovered that certain messages would cause mutt to crash.
Mutt 1.4.2 fixes this bug. See CAN-2004-0078.
Action:
We recommend that all systems with this package installed be
upgraded. Please note that if you do not need the functionality
provided by this package, you may want to remove it from your
system.
Location:
All Trustix updates are available from
<URI:http://http.trustix.org/pub/trustix/updates/>;
<URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.org/pub/trustix/updates/>
About Trustix Secure Linux:
Trustix Secure Linux is a small Linux distribution for servers.
With focus on security and stability, the system is painlessly kept
safe and up to date from day one using swup, the automated software
updater.
Automatic updates:
Users of the SWUP tool can enjoy having updates automatically
installed using ‘swup –upgrade’.
Public testing:
Most updates for Trustix are made available for public testing some
time before release.
If you want to contribute by testing the various packages in the
testing tree, please feel free to share your findings on the
tsl-discuss mailinglist.
The testing tree is located at
<URI:http://tsldev.trustix.org/cloud/>;
You may also use swup for public testing of updates:
site {
class = 0
location = "http://tsldev.trustix.org/cloud/rdfs/latest.rdf"
regexp = ".*"
}
Questions?
Check out our mailing lists:
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/support/>;
Verification:
This advisory along with all Trustix packages are signed with the
TSL sign key.
This key is available from:
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/TSL-SIGN-KEY>;
The advisory itself is available from the errata pages at
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/errata/trustix-2.0/>;
or directly at
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/errata/misc/2004/TSL-2004-0006-mutt.asc.txt>;
MD5sums of the packages:
af3f777eb67ef6c40eacb156f30758a4
2.0/rpms/mutt-1.4.2-1tr.i586.rpm
3af99011808a6eb0132e452077529cf7 2.0/srpms/mutt-1.4.2-1tr.src.rpm
Trustix Security Team