Secunia Security Advisory - Mandriva has issued an update for metamail. This fixes a vulnerability, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Mandriva update for metamail
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19000
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19000/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Mandrakelinux 10.1
http://secunia.com/product/4198/
DESCRIPTION:
Mandriva has issued an update for metamail. This fixes a
vulnerability, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people
to compromise a user's system.
For more information:
SA18796
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.
Mandrakelinux 10.1
ba0268bd4a41df13182c7ad54326dba5
10.1/RPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
37738308d3dff71b6eb473c207acc588
10.1/SRPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.101mdk.src.rpm
Mandrakelinux 10.1/X86_64
31b1df74ae413c00e037675fb772bc86
x86_64/10.1/RPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
37738308d3dff71b6eb473c207acc588
x86_64/10.1/SRPMS/metamail-2.7-11.1.101mdk.src.rpm
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:047
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA18796:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18796/
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