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SUSE: 2014:1137-1 Important: Procmail Heap Corruption Issue

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Calendar Grey September 16, 2014
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SUSE has issued a security patch for procmail to address a serious heap corruption vulnerability. Systems potentially impacted should upgrade promptly.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

procmail was updated to fix a security issue in its formail helper. * When formail processed specially crafted e-mail headers a heap corruption could be triggered, which would lead to a crash of formail. (CVE-2014-3618) Security Issues: * CVE-2014-3618 Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware: zypper in -t patch slessp3-procmail-9689 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3: zypper in -t patch slessp3-procmail-9689 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3: zypper in -t patch sledsp3-procmail-9689 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List:

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security advisory heap corruption software update important suse procmail patch instructions

References

#894999

Cross- CVE-2014-3618

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3

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

https://scc.suse.com:443/patches/

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2014:1137-1
Rating: important

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