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SSA-2004-043-01 mutt security update

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
SSA-2004-043-01 mutt security update

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Mutt is a text-based program for reading electronic mail.

New mutt packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1,
and -current. These have been upgraded to version 1.4.2i to
fix a buffer overflow that could lead to a machine compromise.
All sites using mutt should upgrade to the new mutt package.

More details about this issue may be found in the Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0078

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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