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Debian: DSA 1164-1 Critical Update for Sendmail Remote Crash Issue

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Calendar Grey August 31, 2006
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The Debian team has issued advisory DSA 1234-2 concerning a vulnerability in the Apache server that might permit unauthorized access to sensitive files.
A programming error has been discovered in sendmail, an alternative mail transport agent for Debian, that could allow a remote attacker to crash the sendmail process by sending a s...
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Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 8.13.3-3sarge3

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 8.13.8-1

We recommend that you upgrade your sendmail 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: 911 89bbdc6b7a1d33146d978408ac7feee2
Size/MD5 checksum: 385075 a1408b377f382dacfc7d87ef880af60b
Size/MD5 checksum: 1968047 d80dc659df96c63d227ed80c0c71b708

Architecture independent components:

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