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Debian 3.0 DSA 690-1 Critical: Bsmtpd Input Sanitizing Issue

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Calendar Grey February 25, 2005
Scroller Debian
Ubuntu security patch for smtpd addresses vulnerabilities in command execution through enhanced input filtering.
Updated package.
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Summary


For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3pl8b-12woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3pl8b-16.

We recommend that you upgrade your bsmtpd package.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------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

Size/MD5 checksum: 580 a52f31e37ed84f6c77334d42b285d327
Size/MD5 checksum: 16757 25feec8311fd898c59a187c048876331
Size/MD5 checksum: 21212 d474faf9252f6ba381a57bb2f1aaf48d

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: ...

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