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Debian: DSA 722-1 Moderate: Smail Buffer Overflow Risk Update

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Calendar Grey May 9, 2005
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 722-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze May 9th, 2005 http
Updated package.

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.2.0.115-7.

We recommend that you upgrade your smail package.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody

Size/MD5 checksum: 625 ea1b8e719083ae0ce816ce854c9fad4d
Size/MD5 checksum: 51389 364ffc0fcdd9a7a94beb06bd3a1abfca
Size/MD5 checksum: 849729 e7e42019fbaebbcab6ec73d76b662fef

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 610220 63fe9b4c962ccef3dffd799f8d586e7c

ARM architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 53...

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