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SSA-2004-014-02 INN security update

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
SSA-2004-014-02 INN security update

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

INN (InterNetNews) is used to run a news (NNTP) server.

New INN packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, and -current.
These have been upgraded to inn-2.4.1 to fix a potentially
exploitable buffer overflow. All sites running INN should upgrade.

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

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