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openSUSE: 2022:2272-1 Critical: Procmail Heap Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey September 11, 2014
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A significant Fedora patch addresses a buffer overflow issue in mailutils, strengthening overall system integrity. Discover additional details regarding the update!
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

procmail was updated to fix a heap-overflow in procmail's formail utility

when processing specially-crafted email headers (bnc#894999, CVE-2014-3618)

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 13.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2014-537

- openSUSE 12.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2014-537

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):

procmail-3.22-264.6.1

procmail-debuginfo-3.22-264.6.1

procmail-debugsource-3.22-264.6.1

- openSUSE 12.3 (i586 x86_64):

procmail-3.22-260.6.1

procmail-debuginfo-3.22-260.6.1

procmail-debugsource-3.22-260.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3618.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2014:1114-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1 openSUSE 12.3

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