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Debian 3.1 DSA 841-1 Critical: Mailutils Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey October 4, 2005
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Recent updates to mailutils packages have been issued to address a format string vulnerability that could enable remote code execution in Debian.
Updated package.
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Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.6.1-4sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.6.90-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your mailutils 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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 1105 571f9dc4dd73866f6888f7ad40d445a9
Size/MD5 checksum: 37030 cdeaf9acb33abf47aadeb899163db03c
Size/MD5 checksum: 3053948 47ff446d55909e2777efb9e912b23de5

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD...

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