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[DSA738] DSA-738-1 razor

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-738-1 razor

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

A vulnerability was discovered in the way that Razor parses certain
email headers that could potentially be used to crash the Razor program,
causing a denial of service.
For the stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.670-1sarge2.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this issue.
We recommend that you upgrade your razor package.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-738
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

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

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