ANNOUNCE: Versions 3.25 and 4.04 released

Mark Nienberg mark at TIPPINGMAR.COM
Thu Oct 31 04:04:00 GMT 2002


Does 3.25 include the new sophos update script or do we still have to
extract it from the V4 tar?

On Tuesday, October 29, 2002, at 03:32  AM, Julian Field wrote:

> I have just corrected a potential Denial of Service attack that exists
> in
> both Version 3 and Version 4. I have never received any reports of this
> potential problem ever having been intentionally exploited, but it is
> best
> to fix it now before someone tries it.
>
> I strongly advise all users to upgrade to either of these releases.
>
> Version 3 Users
> =============
> If you have trouble installing version 3.25, or don't want to risk
> upgrading your working system, you can download the new disinfect.pl
> from
> the News section of the web site.
>
> Version 4 Users
> =============
> Version 4 users should just be able to "rpm -Uvh" the mailscanner*rpm
> file
> in the distribution, you won't need to try to re-install all the perl
> modules or anything like that.
>
> Many thanks to Mirko Bovati for pointing out this bug.
>
> Download it all, as usual, from
>                 www.mailscanner.info
> --
> Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
>                             Southampton SO17 1BJ



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