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Debian Security Advisory DSA 553-1 security@debian.org
Package : getmail A security problem has been discovered in getmail, a POP3 and APOP mail gatherer and forwarder. An attacker with a shell account on the victims host could utilise getmail to overwrite arbitrary files when it is running as root. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.7-2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.2.5-1. We recommend that you upgrade your getmail package. Upgrade Instructions wget url
will fetch the file for you 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 Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/getmail/getmail_2.3.7-2.dsc Architecture independent components:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/getmail/getmail_2.3.7-2_all.deb These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>  
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