ANNOUNCE: Versions 3.25 and 4.04 released

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Oct 31 14:33:58 GMT 2002


At 04:04 31/10/2002, you wrote:
>Does 3.25 include the new sophos update script or do we still have to
>extract it from the V4 tar?

Extract it from the V4 tar. 3.26 will include it.
Thanks for pointing that out to me.

>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

--
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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