Debian: DSA-1820-1 Moderate: uw-imap Buffer Overflow and DoS Threat

It was discovered that a NULL pointer dereference could be triggered by
a malicious response to the QUIT command leading to a denial of service
(CVE-2008-5006).

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 2002edebian1-13.1+etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) and the testing distribution
(lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 2007d~dfsg-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your uw-imap packages.

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

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