CVE-2018-19518 · cross-distro fix matrix

CVE-2018-19518: University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2007f on UNIX, as used in imap_open() in PHP and other products, launches an rsh command (by means of the imap_rimap function in c-client/imap4r1.c and the tcp_aopen function in osdep/unix/tcp_unix.c) without preventing argument injection, which might allow remo

Affects 2 Linux releases across 2 (distro × package) combinations.

Fix per ecosystem

Each block below is a distro release where CVE-2018-19518 has a known fix. Run the listed command on that distro to remediate.

Debian bullseye

Source: Debian Security Tracker

uw-imap→ fixed in8:2007f~dfsg-6urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y uw-imap
```

Debian bookworm

Source: Debian Security Tracker

uw-imap→ fixed in8:2007f~dfsg-6urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y uw-imap
```

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