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Slackware Advisory SSA:2005-310-06 imapd
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Slackware Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
6.5
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
11 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
The remote host is missing an update as announced via advisory SSA:2005-310-06.
Insight
Insight
New imapd packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix an alleged security issue. It appears that there is a buffer overflow in the 'mail_valid_net_parse_work' function, but that the function may not be used (i.e. is dead code).
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to the new package(s).