Debian: DSA 597-1 High Severity: cyrus-imapd Arbitrary Code Execution

Stefan Esser discovered several security related problems in the Cyrus
IMAP daemon. Due to a bug in the command parser it is possible to
access memory beyond the allocated buffer in two places which could
lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.5.19-9.2

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.1.17-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your cyrus-imapd package immediately.


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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