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=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-373-1 November 01, 2006 mutt vulnerabilities CVE-2006-5297, CVE-2006-5298 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 5.10 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 6.10 This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 5.10: mutt 1.5.9-2ubuntu1.2 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: mutt 1.5.11-3ubuntu2.2 Ubuntu 6.10: mutt 1.5.12-1ubuntu1.1 After a standard system upgrade you need to restart mutt to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Race conditions were discovered in mutt's handling of temporary files. Under certain conditions when using a shared temp directory (the default), other local users could overwrite arbitrary files owned by the user running mutt. This vulnerability is more likely when the temp directory is over NFS.