Debian: DSA 1115-2 Critical: Qmail Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
debian
July 21, 2006
Andreas Seltenreich discovered a buffer overflow in hashcash, a postage payment scheme for email that is based on hash calculations, which could allow attackers to execute arbitrar...
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Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.21-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your hashcash 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 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 3.1 alias sarge
Size/MD5 checksum: 571 0e6e1272eaec884fa66ae84e962f51cc
Size/MD5 checksum: 3604 bb43fcc72e1c40cfd7e8a337902c7c89
Size/MD5 checksum: 185522 9e5a8a35941c0cdccac93f41bd943593
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 168504 b0ee6dc37c1fbcc9d9084cecfbb9f5e6
AMD64 architecture:
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