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[DSA148] DSA-148-1 hylafax

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-148-1 hylafax

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

A set of problems have been discovered in Hylafax, a flexible
client/server fax software distributed with many GNU/Linux
distributions. Quoting SecurityFocus the problems are in detail:
These problems have been fixed in version 4.0.2-14.3 for the old
stable distribution (potato), in version 4.1.1-1.1 for the current
stable distribution (woody) and in version 4.1.2-2.1 for the unstable
distribution (sid).
We recommend that you upgrade your hylafax packages.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-148
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 3357, 5348, 5349

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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