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Debian 3.0 DSA 906-1 Critical: Sylpheed Remote Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey November 22, 2005
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Debian tackles a remote code execution vulnerability in sylpheed by deploying urgent security patches and advising on necessary upgrades.
Updated package.

Summary


old stable (woody) stable (sarge) unstable (sid)
sylpheed 0.7.4-4woody1 1.0.4-1sarge1 2.0.4-1
sylpheed-gtk1 n/a n/a 1.0.6-1
sylpheed-claws 0.7.4claws-3woody1 1.0.4-1sarge1 1.0.5-2
sylpheed-claws-gtk2 n/a n/a 1.9.100-1

We recommend that you upgrade your sylpheed 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: 809 e2347bf6ce11e212ab44b5a7de555b07
Size/MD5 checksum...

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