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Mandriva: Updated metamail packages fix vulnerability Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Mandrake Ulf Harnhammar discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the way that metamail handles certain mail messages. An attacker could create a carefully-crafted message that, when parsed via metamail, could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running metamail.
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory                         MDKSA-2006:047
 http://www.mandriva.com/security/
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Package : metamail
 Date    : February 22, 2006
 Affected: 10.1, 10.2, 2006.0, Corporate 3.0
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Problem Description:
 
 Ulf Harnhammar discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the way
 that metamail handles certain mail messages.  An attacker could create
 a carefully-crafted message that, when parsed via metamail, could
 execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running
 metamail.
 
 The updated packages have been patched to address this issue.
 _______________________________________________________________________

 References:
 
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0709
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Updated Packages:
 
 Mandriva Linux 10.1:
 ba0268bd4a41df13182c7ad54326dba5  10.1/RPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
 37738308d3dff71b6eb473c207acc588  10.1/SRPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.101mdk.src.rpm

 Mandriva Linux 10.1/X86_64:
 31b1df74ae413c00e037675fb772bc86  x86_64/10.1/RPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
 37738308d3dff71b6eb473c207acc588  x86_64/10.1/SRPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.101mdk.src.rpm

 Mandriva Linux 10.2:
 6dae955385087b6bffdebca801ac2de9  10.2/RPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.102mdk.i586.rpm
 d4f56b18f644e54f5aaadf59247b6ba9  10.2/SRPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.102mdk.src.rpm

 Mandriva Linux 10.2/X86_64:
 b8904fd8e2d4c4b16329eb3be040ae82  x86_64/10.2/RPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
 d4f56b18f644e54f5aaadf59247b6ba9  x86_64/10.2/SRPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.102mdk.src.rpm

 Mandriva Linux 2006.0:
 983ad9efe0f7270920f719209e29ef8d  2006.0/RPMS/metamail-2.7-11.2.20060mdk.i586.rpm
 f2d440c17063c3440342afd83a939dfe  2006.0/SRPMS/metamail-2.7-11.2.20060mdk.src.rpm

 Mandriva Linux 2006.0/X86_64:
 3b2eb2370dd3a37a0f6e7b8e6e97d65f  x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/metamail-2.7-11.2.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
 f2d440c17063c3440342afd83a939dfe  x86_64/2006.0/SRPMS/metamail-2.7-11.2.20060mdk.src.rpm

 Corporate 3.0:
 193e9f3fe5013735ae70e1f0d123375c  corporate/3.0/RPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 33711284aa358a2d82db961a27231e6e  corporate/3.0/SRPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.C30mdk.src.rpm

 Corporate 3.0/X86_64:
 6b44f1e909779950783bbab4988e391a  x86_64/corporate/3.0/RPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
 33711284aa358a2d82db961a27231e6e  x86_64/corporate/3.0/SRPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.C30mdk.src.rpm
 _______________________________________________________________________

 To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi.  The verification
 of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

 All packages are signed by Mandriva for security.  You can obtain the
 GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

  gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

 You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories

 If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

  security_(at)_mandriva.com
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Type Bits/KeyID     Date       User ID
 pub  1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
  
 
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