Package: sympa
Severity: grave
Tags: security patch

Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for sympa.


CVE-2008-1648[0]:
| Sympa before 5.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
| (daemon crash) via an e-mail message with a malformed value of the
| Content-Type header and unspecified other headers.  NOTE: some of these
| details are obtained from third party information.

First apply this patch:
http://sourcesup.cru.fr/cgi/viewvc.cgi/trunk/src/PlainDigest.pm?r1=3597&r2=4834&view=patch
and then this patch:
http://sourcesup.cru.fr/cgi/viewvc.cgi/trunk/src/PlainDigest.pm?r1=4834&r2=4835&view=patch

to fix the problem.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1648
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2008-1648

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