Boris pi Piwinger and Tavis Ormandy reported a heap overflow vulnerability in procmail's formail utility when processing specially-crafted email headers. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause formail to crash, resulting in a denial of service or data loss, or possibly execute arbitrary code. For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 3.22-20+deb7u1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.22-22. We recommend that you upgrade your procmail packages.
Boris pi
Piwinger and Tavis Ormandy reported a heap overflow
vulnerability in procmail's formail utility when processing
specially-crafted email headers. A remote attacker could use this flaw
to cause formail to crash, resulting in a denial of service or data
loss, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 3.22-20+deb7u1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.22-22.
We recommend that you upgrade your procmail packages.
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