Gentoo: 200304-10 Moderate: Balsa Buffer Overflow Remote Attack
gentoo
April 30, 2003
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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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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