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Fedora Core 2: FEDORA-2005-263 Critical: Sylpheed Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey March 29, 2005
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Urgent news for Fedora Core 2 regarding sylpheed tackling a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in the email application. Essential release announcement.
Updated package.

Summary

This program is an X based fast email client which has features

like:

o user-friendly and intuitive interface

o integrated NetNews client (partially implemented)

o ability of keyboard-only operation

o Mew/Wanderlust-like key bind

o multipart MIME

o unlimited multiple account handling

o message queueing

o assortment function

o XML-based address book

See /usr/share/doc/sylpheed*/README for more information.

- 1.0.4 fixes another buffer overflow

2f5a18417bde55cae286daeff079903f SRPMS/sylpheed-1.0.4-0.fc2.src.rpm

9969eb242a19817dafd30edff744ddb3 x86_64/sylpheed-1.0.4-0.fc2.x86_64.rpm

487835349be1bc4794145c0b5b395eaa x86_64/debug/sylpheed-debuginfo-1.0.4-0.fc2.x86_64.rpm

94ca08666fd3ddd52b72be0b23dad99e i386/debug/sylpheed-debuginfo-1.0.4-0.fc2.i386.rpm

6d075fbac76ff0fdb9ce962896ed6952 i386/sylpheed-1.0.4-0.fc2.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

fedora-announce-list@redhat.com

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Name: sylpheed
Version: 1.0.4
Release: 0.fc2
Summary: A GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast email client.

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