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Slackware: 2004-049-02 Critical: Metamail Unauthorized Code Exec Threat

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Calendar Grey February 18, 2004
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Metamail for Arch Linux has been patched with essential updates to fix format string vulnerabilities and stack overflow concerns.
Metamail is a set of utilities for processing MIME mail

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 9.1 ChangeLog: Wed Feb 18 03:44:42 PST 2004 patches/packages/metamail-2.7-i486-2.tgz: Patched two format string bugs and two buffer overflows in metamail which could lead to unauthorized code execution. Thanks to Ulf Härnhammar for discovering these problems and providing a patch. (* Security fix *) WHERE TO FIND THE NEW PACKAGE: Updated package for Slackware 8.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.1/patches/packages/metamail-2.7-i386-2.tgz Updated package for Slackware 9.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/patches/packages/metamail-2.7-i386-2.tgz Updated package for Slackware 9.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.1/patches/packages/metamail-2.7-i486-2.tgz Updated package for Slackware -current: MD5 SIGNATURES: Slackware 8.1 package: 2472a9ac8eefc7d919c0dff517651be6 metamail-2.7-i386-2.tgz Slackware 9.0 package: 4f283c4ad8429fd0e9ed92f3e95e93c7

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