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Debian: DSA-1398-1 Moderate: Format String Remote Threat in Perdition

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2007
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Enhance perdition to eliminate arbitrary code execution risks arising from format string vulnerabilities, as recommended by Debian.
Bernhard Mueller of SEC Consult has discovered a format string vulnerability in perdition, an IMAP proxy

Summary


For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.15-5sarge1

We recommend that you upgrade your perdition 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 3.1 (oldstable)
- ----------------------Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 7002 aa17651883aea7cca61424ad9bf8a38e
Size/MD5 checksum: 551692 7c3aaf30198cf73191a984a76637a940
Size/MD5 checksum: 919 0e3ce322a1b1ad44abbda163b925d642

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