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Mandriva: Updated sympa packages fix DoS vulnerability

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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas

A denial of service condition was discovered in Sympa versions prior to 5.4 that allowed remote attackers to crash the Sympa daemon via a malformed email message (CVE-2008-1648). The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory                         MDVSA-2008:133
 http://www.mandriva.com/security/
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Package : sympa
 Date    : July 4, 2008
 Affected: Corporate 4.0
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Problem Description:
 
 A denial of service condition was discovered in Sympa versions prior
 to 5.4 that allowed remote attackers to crash the Sympa daemon via
 a malformed email message (CVE-2008-1648).
 
 The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
 _______________________________________________________________________

 References:
 
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1648
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Updated Packages:
 
 Corporate 4.0:
 655a68493320ad7bb781763f2e772a8f  corporate/4.0/i586/sympa-5.1.0-2.1.20060mlcs4.i586.rpm 
 2abfb52172b7becbb926bd6cf8f63693  corporate/4.0/SRPMS/sympa-5.1.0-2.1.20060mlcs4.src.rpm

 Corporate 4.0/X86_64:
 6e2632d45d6f4474665457aef2d7574f  corporate/4.0/x86_64/sympa-5.1.0-2.1.20060mlcs4.x86_64.rpm 
 2abfb52172b7becbb926bd6cf8f63693  corporate/4.0/SRPMS/sympa-5.1.0-2.1.20060mlcs4.src.rpm
 _______________________________________________________________________

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 GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

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 You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

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  security_(at)_mandriva.com
 _______________________________________________________________________

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