Debian: DSA 995-1 Moderate: Metamail Buffer Overflow Risk

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.7-47sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.7-51.

We recommend that you upgrade your metamail 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: 613 6ee8aeff0f14e5d799a670fe727039c7
Size/MD5 checksum: 333628 22588d5a91f53fdc1a6458c5519d2512
Size/MD5 checksum: 156656 c6967e9bc5d3c919764b02df24efca01

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 166084 ...