Debian 3.0 DSA 468-1 Critical: emil Local And Remote Issues

Ulf Harnhammar discovered a number of vulnerabilities in emil, a
filter for converting Internet mail messages. The vulnerabilities
fall into two categories:

- CAN-2004-0152 - Buffer overflows in (1) the encode_mime function,
(2) the encode_uuencode function, (3) the decode_uuencode
function. These bugs could allow a carefully crafted email message
to cause the execution of arbitrary code supplied with the message
when it is acted upon by emil.

- CAN-2004-0153 - Format string bugs in statements which print
various error messages. The exploit potential of these bugs has
not been established, and is probably configuration-dependent.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.1.0-beta9-11woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you update your emil package.

Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the refere...