Home→Descriptions→SA38414
| Secunia ID | |
| Release Date |
05 Feb 2010 |
| Criticality | |
| Solution Status |
Vendor Patch |
| Where | |
| 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 accessThis 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: |
| Solution |
Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update gmime22"). |
| Original Advisory |
FEDORA-2010-1484: FEDORA-2010-1429: |