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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-1863
2010-02-16 10:41:50
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Name : maildrop
Product : Fedora 12
Version : 2.4.0
Release : 12.fc12
URL :
http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/
Summary : Mail delivery agent with filtering abilities
Description :
maildrop is the mail filter/mail delivery agent that's used by the
Courier Mail Server. This is a standalone build of the maildrop mail
filter that can be used with other mail servers.
maildrop is a replacement for your local mail delivery agent. maildrop
reads a mail message from standard input, then delivers the message to
your mailbox. maildrop knows how to deliver mail to mbox-style
mailboxes, and maildirs.
maildrop optionally reads instructions from a file, which describe how
to filter incoming mail. These instructions can direct maildrop to
deliver the message to an alternate mailbox, or forward it somewhere
else. Unlike procmail, maildrop uses a structured filtering language.
maildrop is written in C++, and is significantly larger than
procmail. However, it uses resources much more efficiently. Unlike
procmail, maildrop will not read a 10 megabyte mail message into
memory. Large messages are saved in a temporary file, and are filtered
from the temporary file. If the standard input to maildrop is a file,
and not a pipe, a temporary file will not be necessary.
maildrop checks the mail delivery instruction syntax from the filter
file, before attempting to deliver a message. Unlike procmail, if the
filter file contains syntax errors, maildrop terminates without
delivering the message. The user can fix the typo without causing any
mail to be lost.
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Update Information:
This update brings maildrop to the latest upstream version closing
CVE-2010-0301.
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ChangeLog:
* Sun Feb 14 2010 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@ATrpms.net> - 2.4.0-12
- Update to 2.4.0.
- Fixes CVE-2010-0301.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #559681 - CVE-2010-0301 maildrop: does not drop supplimentary groups when dropping privileges
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559681
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update maildrop' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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