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Gentoo: 200304-10 Moderate: Balsa Buffer Overflow Remote Attack

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Calendar Grey April 30, 2003
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Gentoo Security Notice concerning a severe buffer overflow vulnerability in Balsa affecting user devices. Immediate update to version balsa-2.0.10 is recommended.
Balsa suffers from the same buffer overflow as mutt.

Summary


GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200304-10


Balsa suffers from the same buffer overflow as mutt did:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=104852190605988&w=2

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-mail/balsa upgrade to balsa-2.0.10 as follows:

emerge sync
emerge balsa
emerge clean

aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at

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Topics Covered

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Resolution

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Availability

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Concerns

PACKAGE : balsa
SUMMARY : buffer overflow
DATE : 2003-04-30 13:40 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : =balsa-2.0.10
CVE : CAN-2003-0140

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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo buffer overflow remote exploit balsa

Synopsis

Background

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Workaround