Patched Qpopper2.5 release Notification.

From: Christopher L. Davis <cld_at_prin.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 08:51:48 -0500

I got the following message this morning from Qualcomm.

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>Hello Folks,
> As you are already aware that qpopper 2.41 and prior are vulnerable to
>buffer overflow there by causing security breach. A patched qpopper2.5 is
>made available at
>http://ftp.qualcomm.com/eudora/servers/unix/popper/qpopper2.5.tar.Z.
>
>This server release is immune from all the known security holes posted in
>bugtraq_at_netscape.org. Please upgrade or patch your server if you are
>running any qpopper older than 2.5.
>
>Many thanks to all the people who posted these bugs and patches.
>
>Thanks
>Praveen Yaramada.
>
>

I have retrieved the file but have not installed it yet. Thought this
would be of interest.

Chris
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