Package : metamail Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-0709 BugTraq ID : 16611 Debian Bug : 352482
Ulf Harnhammar discoverd a buffer overflow in metamail, an implementation of MIME (Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions), that could lead to a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code when processing messages.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.7-45woody.4.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.7-47sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.7-51.
We recommend that you upgrade your metamail 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 3.0 alias woody - --------------------------------