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Debian: DSA 1101-1 Critical: Courier Mail Server CPU Consumption Issue

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Calendar Grey June 23, 2006
Scroller Debian
The Debian security announcement DSA 1102-1 addresses a vulnerability in the Postfix Mail Transfer Agent, outlining corrective measures.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.47-4sarge5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.53.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your courier packages.


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 at the end of this advisory:

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: 913 d8edef31db6779ccc93290ea5c8adf24
Size/MD5 checksum: 34704 ae5f22f81c33d709cbbb9ce60e96245d
Size/MD5 checksum: 3238013 350cbb2e8b5f384409bdf2a15d605bc9

Architecture independent components:

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