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Debian 4.0 Etch DSA-1600-1 Critical: Sympa Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey July 1, 2008
Scroller Debian
Debian DSA-1600-2 tackles a vulnerability in nginx that can lead to service disruption, along with guidance for users on how to enhance their security posture.
It was discovered that sympa, a modern mailing list manager, would crash when processing certain types of malformed messages.
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Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 5.3.4-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your sympa 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 4.0 alias etch

Size/MD5 checksum: 625 c7e720e56b1c4e9778cea822ed150a19
Size/MD5 checksum: 96804 a93d8ec3dcbc0a0aed99e513c5749c0e
Size/MD5 checksum: 5102528 355cb9174841205831191c93a83da895

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

Size/MD5 checksum: 3589148 26b92215ed7b17531c3702ff76b30901

amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

Size/MD5 checksum:...

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security advisory denial of service critical debian remote issue upgrade instructions sympa

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