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Debian: DSA 902-1 Critical: xmail Buffer Overflow Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey November 21, 2005
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An exploit in zsend could permit unauthorized command execution. It is crucial for users to upgrade their software without delay.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.21-3sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.22-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your xmail 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

Size/MD5 checksum: 657 a4e8cbdcec1936899e9adddc6b1bc906
Size/MD5 checksum: 28636 bdd037ca57a8a87c7ab8bb3a88129c51
Size/MD5 checksum: 413237 c6417c5b66cd0b0bff7375767d07235b

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5 check...

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