Debian 3.1 DSA 1121-1 Critical: Postgrey Remote Format String Attack
debian
July 24, 2006
Peter Bieringer discovered that postgrey, an greylisting implementation for Postfix, is vulnerable to a format string attack that allows remote attackers to the daemon.
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Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has also been fixed
in version 1.21-1volatile4 in the volatile archive.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.22-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your postgrey package.
Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given at the end of this advisory:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge
Size/MD5 checksum: 628 2a0d8c903c9f47b374a9fa871056b5df
Size/MD5 checksum: 13354 96eefd0e11745edf1cce5fa833d83396
Size/MD5 checksum: 25934 1274e073be5178445e0892a9dcc6fe98
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