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Fedora update for gmime22


Secunia ID

SA38414

Release Date

05 Feb 2010

Criticality

Less Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Where

From remote

Impact
DoS (Denial of Service)

This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system.

System access

This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.

Description

Fedora has issued an update for gmime22. This fixes a vulnerability, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise an application using the library.

For more information:
SA38459

Solution

Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update gmime22").

Original Advisory

FEDORA-2010-1484:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034815.html

FEDORA-2010-1429:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034707.html