Debian 3.1: DSA-1512-1 Critical: Evolution Format String Attack
debian
March 5, 2008
Ulf Härnhammar discovered that Evolution, the e-mail and groupware suite,
had a format string vulnerability in the parsing of encrypted mail messages.
If the user opened a speci...
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Summary
For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.4-2sarge3. Some architectures have not yet completed building
the updated package for sarge at this time, they will be added as they
come available.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.12.3-1.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your evolution 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 3.1 alias sarge
Size/MD5 checksum: 294256 892634ed1c28416dea721a0ee1374d84
Size/MD5 checksum: 1459 e4a9b6f334108cae7550c9a09...
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