Debian: New popfile packages fix denial of service
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 1061-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff May 19th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : popfile Vulnerability : missing input sanitising Problem-Type : local(remote) Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-0876 Debian Bug : 354464 It has been discovered that popfile, a bayesian mail classifier, can be forced into a crash through malformed character sets within email messages, which allows denial of service. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain popfile packages. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.22.2-2sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.22.4-1. We recommend that you upgrade your popfile 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 - -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 589 3e810260fb4c4527a1b2b4ed2cb60550 Size/MD5 checksum: 13892 412e873bf3ed0031ac6f0d728f428188 Size/MD5 checksum: 1494830 05538821f28c3f57d514460effc034ef Architecture independent components: Size/MD5 checksum: 1481360 85f5e08bff66c1830c1d6bd35f34c89b These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
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