mutt: Buffer overflow in handler.c possibly allows code execution by maliciously crafted email

Bug #20055 reported by Debian Bug Importer
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
mutt (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
mutt (Ubuntu)
Invalid
High
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

Automatically imported from Debian bug report #323956 http://bugs.debian.org/323956

CVE References

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Automatically imported from Debian bug report #323956 http://bugs.debian.org/323956

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:03:28 +0200
From: Daniel Leidert <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: mutt: Buffer overflow in handler.c possibly allows code execution by
 maliciously crafted email

Package: mutt
Version: 1.5.10-1
Severity: grave

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This report was posted on full-disclosure. Please have a look at
http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2005-08/0594.html
for more info.

Regards, Daniel

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (850, 'unstable'), (700, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.03050816
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages mutt depends on:
ii exim [mail-transport-agent] 3.36-17 An MTA (Mail Transport Agent)
ii libc6 2.3.5-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdb4.3 4.3.28-3 Berkeley v4.3 Database Libraries [
ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-13.1 GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii libidn11 0.5.18-1 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libncursesw5 5.4-9 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsasl2 2.1.19-1.5 Authentication abstraction library

Versions of packages mutt recommends:
ii locales 2.3.5-3 GNU C Library: National Language (
ii mime-support 3.35-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap

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In , Robert Millan (rmh-aybabtu-com) wrote : tags

tags 323956 security
thanks

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <20050820084902.GA5175@aragorn>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 10:49:02 +0200
From: Robert Millan <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: tags

tags 323956 security
thanks

--
Robert Millan

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Daniel Robitaille (robitaille) wrote :

This was also filled as Mutt's bug #8765 in http://bugs.mutt.org/

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Apparently this does not affect mutt in general, but only with some third party
patches. The exploit does not do anything on Ubuntu's mutt. So it is not really
urgent, but I'm leaving this open until this has been investigated more thoroughly.

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In , Joey Hess (joeyh) wrote : CVE assignment

This hole has been assigned CAN-2005-2642, so please mention that in the
changelog when fixing.

--
see shy jo

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

The bug actually was in OpenBSD's libc and does not have anything to do with
mutt itself.

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In , ldoolitt (ldoolitt) wrote : doesn't reproduce on my debian box

I read the full-disclosure post, and its reply.
  http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2005-08/0600.html
Two example mailboxes are given (one in each post),
and it is suggested that the problem is triggered
by a library runtime version mismatch.

I tried both examples on
 debian sid x86_64, mutt 1.5.10-1
 debian sarge x86, mutt 1.5.9-2
All four combinations (two mailboxes, two debian systems)
ran normally, no crashes or any other unusual behavior.
So this might not apply to debian at all.

    - Larry

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In , Michelle Konzack (linux4michelle) wrote : Re: Bug#323956: doesn't reproduce on my debian box

Am 2005-08-26 16:28:38, schrieb Larry Doolittle:
> I read the full-disclosure post, and its reply.
> http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2005-08/0600.html
> Two example mailboxes are given (one in each post),
> and it is suggested that the problem is triggered
> by a library runtime version mismatch.
>
> I tried both examples on
> debian sid x86_64, mutt 1.5.10-1
> debian sarge x86, mutt 1.5.9-2
> All four combinations (two mailboxes, two debian systems)
> ran normally, no crashes or any other unusual behavior.
> So this might not apply to debian at all.

I can confirm this too
It does not affect Debian, but Mandrake and Redhat... :-)

> - Larry

Greetings
Michelle

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In , Florian Weimer (fw) wrote :

* Michelle Konzack:

>> I tried both examples on
>> debian sid x86_64, mutt 1.5.10-1
>> debian sarge x86, mutt 1.5.9-2
>> All four combinations (two mailboxes, two debian systems)
>> ran normally, no crashes or any other unusual behavior.
>> So this might not apply to debian at all.
>
> I can confirm this too
> It does not affect Debian, but Mandrake and Redhat... :-)

How have you determined this?

Can you rule out that it's not reproducible with some other charset?

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In , ldoolitt (ldoolitt) wrote :

I summarized my "research" with:
> [T]his might not apply to debian at all.

Michelle Konzack chimed in with:
> It does not affect Debian, but Mandrake and Redhat... :-)

Florian Weimer asked:
> Can you rule out that it's not reproducible with some other charset?

I can't rule anything out. If I understand the bug reports
and examples correctly, the charset in question is the one
specified in the e-mail header, and is therefore part of
the example mbox files. The only technical discussion I
can find on-line is on the mutt mailing list:
  http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.mutt.devel/8379
and that faded away without resolution a month ago. There
is no (current & relevant) activity regarding handler.c
in the mutt CVS tree. Tamotsu's patch has been ignored.

So this still looks to me like a non-bug for Debian.
If the mutt developers don't understand and can't reproduce
it, I'm reluctant to spend much effort on the Debian side.

If Michelle has personally confirmed it affects Mandrake and
Redhat, maybe (s)he can use one of those systems to try the
test program posted by Thomas Roessler at
  http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.mail.mutt.devel/8383
For the record, my debian sid system gives the result
rv = 0, errno = 0 (?)
'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*'

      - Larry

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:54:13 -0400
From: Joey Hess <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: CVE assignment

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <20050826232838.GA29940@lrd5-64>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 16:28:38 -0700
From: Larry Doolittle <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: doesn't reproduce on my debian box

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I read the full-disclosure post, and its reply.
  http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2005-08/0600.html
Two example mailboxes are given (one in each post),
and it is suggested that the problem is triggered
by a library runtime version mismatch.

I tried both examples on
 debian sid x86_64, mutt 1.5.10-1
 debian sarge x86, mutt 1.5.9-2
All four combinations (two mailboxes, two debian systems)
ran normally, no crashes or any other unusual behavior.
So this might not apply to debian at all.

    - Larry

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 04:01:28 +0200
From: Michelle Konzack <email address hidden>
To: Larry Doolittle <email address hidden>,
  <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#323956: doesn't reproduce on my debian box

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Am 2005-08-26 16:28:38, schrieb Larry Doolittle:
> I read the full-disclosure post, and its reply.
> http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2005-08/0600.html
> Two example mailboxes are given (one in each post),
> and it is suggested that the problem is triggered
> by a library runtime version mismatch.
>=20
> I tried both examples on
> debian sid x86_64, mutt 1.5.10-1
> debian sarge x86, mutt 1.5.9-2
> All four combinations (two mailboxes, two debian systems)
> ran normally, no crashes or any other unusual behavior.
> So this might not apply to debian at all.

I can confirm this too
It does not affect Debian, but Mandrake and Redhat... :-)

> - Larry

Greetings
Michelle

--=20
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                   50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi
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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 14:14:59 +0200
From: Florian Weimer <email address hidden>
To: Michelle Konzack <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>, Larry Doolittle <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#323956: doesn't reproduce on my debian box

* Michelle Konzack:

>> I tried both examples on
>> debian sid x86_64, mutt 1.5.10-1
>> debian sarge x86, mutt 1.5.9-2
>> All four combinations (two mailboxes, two debian systems)
>> ran normally, no crashes or any other unusual behavior.
>> So this might not apply to debian at all.
>
> I can confirm this too
> It does not affect Debian, but Mandrake and Redhat... :-)

How have you determined this?

Can you rule out that it's not reproducible with some other charset?

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <20050919161300.GA6279@lrd5-64>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:13:00 -0700
From: Larry Doolittle <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#323956: doesn't reproduce on my debian box

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I summarized my "research" with:
> [T]his might not apply to debian at all.

Michelle Konzack chimed in with:
> It does not affect Debian, but Mandrake and Redhat... :-)

Florian Weimer asked:
> Can you rule out that it's not reproducible with some other charset?

I can't rule anything out. If I understand the bug reports
and examples correctly, the charset in question is the one
specified in the e-mail header, and is therefore part of
the example mbox files. The only technical discussion I
can find on-line is on the mutt mailing list:
  http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.mutt.devel/8379
and that faded away without resolution a month ago. There
is no (current & relevant) activity regarding handler.c
in the mutt CVS tree. Tamotsu's patch has been ignored.

So this still looks to me like a non-bug for Debian.
If the mutt developers don't understand and can't reproduce
it, I'm reluctant to spend much effort on the Debian side.

If Michelle has personally confirmed it affects Mandrake and
Redhat, maybe (s)he can use one of those systems to try the
test program posted by Thomas Roessler at
  http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.mail.mutt.devel/8383
For the record, my debian sid system gives the result
rv = 0, errno = 0 (?)
'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*'

      - Larry

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In , Michelle Konzack (linux4michelle) wrote :

I do not know, whether I have already respond to you...

Am 2005-09-18 14:14:59, schrieb Florian Weimer:
> * Michelle Konzack:

> > I can confirm this too
> > It does not affect Debian, but Mandrake and Redhat... :-)
>
> How have you determined this?
>
> Can you rule out that it's not reproducible with some other charset?

Because my Workstation is Multi-User/Lang I have:

ar_MA ar_MA.utf8
de_DE@euro de_DE.utf8
el_GR el_GR.utf8
en_GB en_GB.utf8
en_US
es_ES@euro es_ES.utf8
                fa_IR.utf8
fr_FR@euro fr_FR.utf8
tr_TR tr_TR.utf8

I have found no problems curently.

Greetings
Michelle

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:23:52 +0200
From: Michelle Konzack <email address hidden>
To: Florian Weimer <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#323956: doesn't reproduce on my debian box

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I do not know, whether I have already respond to you...

Am 2005-09-18 14:14:59, schrieb Florian Weimer:
> * Michelle Konzack:

> > I can confirm this too
> > It does not affect Debian, but Mandrake and Redhat... :-)
>=20
> How have you determined this?
>=20
> Can you rule out that it's not reproducible with some other charset?

Because my Workstation is Multi-User/Lang I have:

ar_MA ar_MA.utf8
de_DE@euro de_DE.utf8
el_GR el_GR.utf8
en_GB en_GB.utf8
en_US =20
es_ES@euro es_ES.utf8
                fa_IR.utf8
fr_FR@euro fr_FR.utf8
tr_TR tr_TR.utf8

I have found no problems curently.

Greetings
Michelle

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                   50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi
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In , Frank Lichtenheld (djpig) wrote : tagging 323956

# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.9.7
 # let the further handling of the bug to the maintainer but reflect the current state of the discussion
tags 323956 unreproducible

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 01:44:37 +0200
From: Frank Lichtenheld <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: tagging 323956

# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.9.7
 # let the further handling of the bug to the maintainer but reflect the current state of the discussion
tags 323956 unreproducible

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In , Dato Simó (dato) wrote : Let's close this bug

close 323956
thanks

  (Way to go about forgetting RC bugs and not noticing mutt not
  migrating to testing but occasionally, to forget it the next day.)

  So I'm closing this bug. Nor upstream, nor me, not ohter people who
  mailed this bug, have been able to reproduce the crash, and I have not
  heard of it being successfully obtained on any glibc based system. I
  am not really willing to keep this bug open at grave severity when
  people repeatedly fail to reproduce it. Upstream sees no problem, if
  somebody does, I'll be delighted (well, sort of) to see you come by
  with a proof that an explotaible bug is really hiding there.

  Cheers,

--
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Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
                -- Josh Billings

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 02:02:00 +0100
From: Adeodato =?utf-8?B?U2ltw7M=?= <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Let's close this bug

close 323956
thanks

  (Way to go about forgetting RC bugs and not noticing mutt not
  migrating to testing but occasionally, to forget it the next day.)

  So I'm closing this bug. Nor upstream, nor me, not ohter people who
  mailed this bug, have been able to reproduce the crash, and I have not
  heard of it being successfully obtained on any glibc based system. I
  am not really willing to keep this bug open at grave severity when
  people repeatedly fail to reproduce it. Upstream sees no problem, if
  somebody does, I'll be delighted (well, sort of) to see you come by
  with a proof that an explotaible bug is really hiding there.

  Cheers,

--
Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
                -- Josh Billings

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In , Daniel Leidert (dleidert-deactivatedaccount) wrote : change my mail address

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