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Debian: DSA 774-1 Critical Fetchmail Remote Code Execution Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey August 12, 2005
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 774-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze August 12th, 2005
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 6.2.5-12sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 6.2.5-16.

We recommend that you upgrade your fetchmail 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: 650 3eb739416b5b7a906b56b3145cf1ba32
Size/MD5 checksum: 150578 12cdd33c6299e840ffcf3cfa00eb2e0e
Size/MD5 checksum: 1257376 9956b30139edaa4f5f77c4d0dbd80225

Architecture independent components:

Size/M...

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