From: Seemant Kulleen <seemant@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-announce@gentoo.org, gentoo-security@gentoo.org,
lwn@lwn.net
Subject: Evolution memory bug
Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 15:30:45 -0700
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GLSA: GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT
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PACKAGE : evolution
SUMMARY : security vulnerability in evolution
DATE : Fri May 3 21:26:24 UTC 2002
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OVERVIEW
A security vulnerability has been found that might cause memory to be
eaten up due to malformed headers on incoming messages.
DETAIL
Fix for a security vulnerability that could allow a possible DOS due to
bad headers in incoming messages.
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2002-May/msg00020.html
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running evolution
update their systems as follows.
emerge --clean rsync
emerge evolution
emerge clean
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