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[DSA1236] DSA-1236-1 enemies-of-carlotta

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-1236-1 enemies-of-carlotta

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho discovered that enemies-of-carlotta, a simple
manager for mailing lists, does not properly sanitise email addresses
before passing them through to the system shell.
For the stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version
1.0.3-1sarge1.
We recommend that you upgrade your enemies-of-carlotta package.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1236
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2006 Michel Arboi

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