Package : mailutils Vulnerability : format string vulnerability Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-2878
A format string vulnerability has been discovered in GNU mailutils which contains utilities for handling mail that allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the IMAP server.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.1-4sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.90-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your mailutils 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 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------