emil - several vulnerabilities

Ulf Härnhammar discovered a number of vulnerabilities in emil, a
filter for converting Internet mail messages. The vulnerabilities
fall into two categories:

• CAN-2004-0152
  Buffer overflows in (1) the encode_mime function,
  (2) the encode_uuencode function, (3) the decode_uuencode
  function. These bugs could allow a carefully crafted email message
  to cause the execution of arbitrary code supplied with the message
  when it is acted upon by emil.

• CAN-2004-0153
  Format string bugs in statements which print
  various error messages. The exploit potential of these bugs has
  not been established, and is probably configuration-dependent.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.1.0-beta9-11woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you update your emil package.