Debian 4.0 Etch DSA-1600-1 Critical: Sympa Denial of Service
debian
July 1, 2008
It was discovered that sympa, a modern mailing list manager, would
crash when processing certain types of malformed messages.
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 5.3.4-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your sympa 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 4.0 alias etch
Size/MD5 checksum: 625 c7e720e56b1c4e9778cea822ed150a19
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Size/MD5 checksum: 5102528 355cb9174841205831191c93a83da895
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 3589148 26b92215ed7b17531c3702ff76b30901
amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
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