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Fedora alert FEDORA-2009-0371 (uw-imap)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: uw-imap-2007e-1.fc9
Date:  Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:39:10 +0000
Message-ID:  <20090121213910.23191208E26@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-0371 2009-01-14 23:35:16 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : uw-imap Product : Fedora 9 Version : 2007e Release : 1.fc9 URL : http://www.washington.edu/imap/ Summary : UW Server daemons for IMAP and POP network mail protocols Description : The uw-imap package provides UW server daemons for both the IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) and POP (Post Office Protocol) mail access protocols. The POP protocol uses a "post office" machine to collect mail for users and allows users to download their mail to their local machine for reading. The IMAP protocol allows a user to read mail on a remote machine without downloading it to their local machine. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Update to new upstream version - 2007e. Contains fix for a security issue - buffer overflow in rfc822_output_char / rfc822_output_data (CVE-2008-5514). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Dec 19 2008 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 2007e-1 - imap-2007e * Fri Oct 31 2008 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 2007d-1 - imap-2007d * Wed Oct 1 2008 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 2007b-2 - fix build (patch fuzz) (#464985) * Fri Jun 13 2008 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 2007b-1 - imap-2007b * Sun May 18 2008 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 2007a1-3 - libc-client: incomplete list of obsoletes (#446240) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #477227 - CVE-2008-5514 libc-client: buffer overflow in rfc822_output_char / rfc822_output_data https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477227 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update uw-imap' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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