Debian: 437-1 Moderate: Cgiemail Open Mail Relay Exploit

A vulnerability was discovered in cgiemail, a CGI program used to
email the contentsof an HTML form, whereby it could be used to send
email to arbitrary addresses. This type of vulnerability is commonly
exploited to send unsolicited commercial email (spam).

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
fixed in version 1.6-14woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6-20.

We recommend that you update your cgiemail package.

Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody

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