Debian: DSA-1802-2 Critical: SquirrelMail Remote Threat
debian
May 21, 2009
Michal Hlavinka discovered that the fix for code execution in the map_yp_alias function, known as CVE-2009-1579 and released in DSA 1802-1, was incomplete
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Summary
For the old stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.9a-5.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.15-4+lenny2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.19-1
We recommend that you upgrade your squirrelmail 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 4.0 alias etch
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1021 23e85a9813bd2236e3f104ac0fa1bf6f
Size/MD5 checksum: 598950 5b19f8cc5badef91d1f2410df41564bc
Size/MD5 checksum: 27766 9858f9f2186d14e6b22d32c5bcc...
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