Fedora Legacy Test Update Notification: metamail
Jesse Keating
jkeating at j2solutions.net
Fri Mar 5 05:19:53 UTC 2004
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Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-1305
Bugzilla https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1305
2004-03-04
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Name : metamail
Version 7.2 : 2.7-29.7.x.legacy
Version 7.3 : 2.7-29.7.x.legacy
Summary : A program for handling multimedia mail using the mailcap
file.
Description :
Metamail is a system for handling multimedia mail, using the mailcap
file. Metamail reads the mailcap file, which tells Metamail what
helper program to call in order to handle a particular type of
non-text mail. Note that metamail can also add multimedia support to
certain non-mail programs.
Metamail should be installed if you need to add multimedia support to
mail programs and some other programs, using the mailcap file.
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Update Information:
CAN-2004-0104:
Multiple format string vulnerabilities in Metamail 2.7 and earlier allow
remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
CAN-2004-0105:
Multiple buffer overflows in Metamail 2.7 and earlier allow remote
attackers to execute arbitrary code.
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Changelog:
* Thu Mar 04 2004 Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net>
- - 2.7-29.7.x.legacy
- - Adding 7.x.legacy for Fedora Legacy
- - Adding libtermcap-devel as BuildReq.
* Tue Feb 10 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> 2.7-29
- - update source URL
- - apply rollup patch from Ulf Härnhammar to correct some format-string
vulnerabilities and buffer overflows (CAN-2004-0104, CAN-2004-0105)
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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/
280751e83a0abb7513c9317fd1f6f5eb5ce493f5
7.2/updates-testing/SRPMS/metamail-2.7-29.7.x.legacy.src.rpm
a27699e22525617ba294320adaa58838bb7a6535
7.2/updates-testing/i386/metamail-2.7-29.7.x.legacy.i386.rpm
280751e83a0abb7513c9317fd1f6f5eb5ce493f5
7.3/updates-testing/SRPMS/metamail-2.7-29.7.x.legacy.src.rpm
a27699e22525617ba294320adaa58838bb7a6535
7.3/updates-testing/i386/metamail-2.7-29.7.x.legacy.i386.rpm
Please note that this update is also available via yum and apt
through the updates-testing channel. Many people find this an easier
way to apply updates.
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