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Debian: DSA 637-1 Critical Exim-TLS Buffer Overflow Remote Execution

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Calendar Grey January 13, 2005
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2738-1 deals with a heap-based overflow in postfix affecting remote code execution through UDP.
Philip Hazel announced a buffer overflow in the host_aton function in exim-tls, the SSL-enabled version of the default mail-tranport-agent in Debian, which can lead to the execut...
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Summary


In the unstable distribution (sid) this package does not exist
anymore.

We recommend that you upgrade your exim-tls 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: 677 059e83c496e959d01bcca0a11637b017
Size/MD5 checksum: 80492 90d594f60ae815a780faa5f9c9d1859d
Size/MD5 checksum: 1271057 42d362e40a21bd7ffc298f92c8bd986a

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 873682 935e1dddb27a713d562b905c2951dea7

ARM architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 784148 c97ded11...

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