Sean Larsson discovered a buffer overflow in the IMAP “annotate” extension. This possibly allowed an authenticated IMAP client to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the Cyrus IMAP server.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
28 February 2005
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Sean Larsson discovered a buffer overflow in the IMAP “annotate” extension. This possibly allowed an authenticated IMAP client to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the Cyrus IMAP server.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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