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Gentoo: 200502-29 Normal: Cyrus IMAP Server Overflow Issues

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Calendar Grey February 23, 2005
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Cyrus IMAP Daemon on Gentoo subjected to buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Immediate upgrade advised for safeguarding system integrity. Full information available within.
The Cyrus IMAP Server is affected by several overflow vulnerabilities which could potentially lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200502-29 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Cyrus IMAP Server: Multiple overflow vulnerabilities Date: February 23, 2005 Bugs: #82404 ID: 200502-29

Synopsis ======= The Cyrus IMAP Server is affected by several overflow vulnerabilities which could potentially lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= The Cyrus IMAP Server is an efficient, highly-scalable IMAP e-mail server.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-mail/cyrus-imapd < 2.2.12 >= 2.2.12
========== Possible single byte overflows have been found in the imapd annotate extension and mailbox handling code...

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