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- Solaris DTmail vulnerable to buffer overflow attack.
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- DTmail - a program that acts as a mail user agent for the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) - is vulnerable to a
- buffer overflow attack which might cause the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user "mail" and
- that of the actual user reading the email.
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- Several buffer overflows have been found in DTmail with regards to its handling of attachments. A remote attacker
- may exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary instructions.
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- Affected systems: Solaris 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1 and 2.6.
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- A patch which fixes this problem has been provided by Sun can be found at their home page.
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- Solaris patches can be found at: http://sunsolve.sun.com/sunsolve/pubpatches/patches.html. Sun's home page can
- be found at: http://www.sun.com.
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