Package name sympa
Date July 4th, 2008
Advisory ID MDVSA-2008:133
Affected versions CS4.0

Problem Description

A denial of service condition was discovered in Sympa versions prior
to 5.4 that allowed remote attackers to crash the Sympa daemon via
a malformed email message (CVE-2008-1648).

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Updated Packages

Corporate Server 4.0

 655a68493320ad7bb781763f2e772a8f  corporate/4.0/i586/sympa-5.1.0-2.1.20060mlcs4.i586.rpm 
 2abfb52172b7becbb926bd6cf8f63693  corporate/4.0/SRPMS/sympa-5.1.0-2.1.20060mlcs4.src.rpm

Corporate Server 4.0/X86_64

 6e2632d45d6f4474665457aef2d7574f  corporate/4.0/x86_64/sympa-5.1.0-2.1.20060mlcs4.x86_64.rpm 
 2abfb52172b7becbb926bd6cf8f63693  corporate/4.0/SRPMS/sympa-5.1.0-2.1.20060mlcs4.src.rpm

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1648

Upgrade

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Verification

Please verify the update prior to upgrading to ensure the integrity of the downloaded package. You can do this with the command :

		rpm --checksig package.rpm
		

You can get the GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team to verify the GPG signature of each RPM.

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