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Debian: 900-2 Moderate Update For Fetchmail Information Leak Issue

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Calendar Grey November 21, 2005
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The latest fetchmail update resolves a local information exposure vulnerability that impacts Debian installations. Users are advised to upgrade for enhanced security.
Updated package.

Summary


This update also fixes a regression in the package for stable caused
by the last security update.

For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 5.9.11-6.4.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 6.2.5-12sarge3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 6.2.5.4-1.

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 3.0 alias woody

Size/MD5 checksum: 712 e1a82c36c542d941d9ab5fddd72a084b
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