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Debian: DSA-2021-1 Critical Remote Execution Risk in Spamass-milter

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Calendar Grey March 22, 2010
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Insufficient input validation in spamass-milter paves the way for remote adversaries to run arbitrary commands. Immediate update advised.
It was discovered a missing input sanitization in spamass-milter, a milter used to filter mail through spamassassin

Summary

It was discovered a missing input sanitization in spamass-milter, a milter
used to filter mail through spamassassin.
This allows a remote attacker to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.3.1-8+lenny1.

For the testing (squeeze) and unstable (sid) distribution this problem
has been fixed in version 0.3.1-9.

We recommend that you upgrade your spamass-milter 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 (stable)
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Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips...

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Package: spamass-milter

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