Debian Lenny: DSA-2082-1 Critical: Gmime Buffer Overflow Threat

It was discovered that a buffer overflow in the MIME library GMime might
lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.22-2+lenny2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.25-1.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your gmime2.2 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 5.0 alias lenny

Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

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