Debian 3.0: DSA 467-1 Critical: Ecartis Password Leak And Buffer Overflow

Timo Sirainen discovered two vulnerabilities in ecartis, a mailing
list manager.

- CAN-2003-0781 - Failure to validate user input could lead to
disclosure of mailing list passwords
- CAN-2003-0782 - Multiple buffer overflows

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.0.0+cvs.20030911.

We recommend that you update your ecartis 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 3.0 alias woody

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