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Debian DSA-1892-1 Critical: Dovecot Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey September 24, 2009
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It was discovered that the SIEVE component of dovecot, a mail server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxes, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when processing SIEVE scripts
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Summary


For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version
1.0.rc15-2etch5.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version
1:1.0.15-2.3+lenny1.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.2.1-1.


We recommend that you upgrade your dovecot packages.


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

Debian (oldstable)
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Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

...

Read the Full Advisory

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Packages: dovecot
CVE IDs: CVE-2009-2632 CVE-2009-3235

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