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Debian: DSA 1015-1 Critical Remote Code Execution Risk in Sendmail

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Calendar Grey March 23, 2006
Scroller Debian
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1234-1 addresses a vulnerability in postfix that could lead to unauthorized access.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 8.13.4-3sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 8.13.6-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your sendmail package immediately.


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: 753 e88f300c970924d33b8ba8ea2b3eae6b
Size/MD5 checksum: 277212 96008f9276955cd69add11424604e8e4
Size/MD5 checksum: 1840401 b198b346b10b3b5afc8cb4e12c07ff4d

Architecture independent components:

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