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GLSA: GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT |
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PACKAGE : evolution |
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SUMMARY : security vulnerability in evolution |
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DATE : Fri May 3 21:26:24 UTC 2002 |
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OVERVIEW |
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A security vulnerability has been found that might cause memory to be |
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eaten up due to malformed headers on incoming messages. |
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DETAIL |
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Fix for a security vulnerability that could allow a possible DOS due to |
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bad headers in incoming messages. |
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http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2002-May/msg00020.html |
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SOLUTION |
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It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running evolution |
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update their systems as follows. |
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emerge --clean rsync |
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emerge evolution |
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emerge clean |
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spider@g.o |
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seemant@g.o |
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drobbins@g.o |
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