Debian: New postfix-policyd packages fix arbitrary code execution
Summary
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1361 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Steve Kemp August 29th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : postfix-policyd Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2007-3791 Debian Bug : 435735 It was discovered that postfix-policyd, an anti-spam plugin for postfix, didn't correctly bounds-test incoming SMTP commands potentially allowing the remote exploitation of arbitrary code. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.80-2.1etch1. For the old stable distribution (sarge), this package was not present. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem was fixed in version 1.80-2.2. We recommend that you upgrade your postfix-policyd 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 below: 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 4.0 alias etch - --------------------------------Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 11391 3b110e0653af37a0367abac9a2cc303b Size/MD5 checksum: 661 1da40619537632f9986db4da5ec1f1bf Size/MD5 checksum: 67138 3d6caea3c5ef4a1b97816180a21a94f3 alpha architecture (DEC Alpha) Size/MD5 checksum: 77270 07b5622f7801eb74ec409337f49581b9 amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) Size/MD5 checksum: 74814 4aae549d216b8653e0817ed7368ed70a arm architecture (ARM) Size/MD5 checksum: 74760 0eee0050d13f6aa3a41a52764fca3bce hppa architecture (HP PA RISC) Size/MD5 checksum: 76708 52fad04d43236faf0617d1585bff6632 i386 architecture (Intel ia32) Size/MD5 checksum: 69196 be22b73cc4c4d9d050ba55170f161dc5 ia64 architecture (Intel ia64) Size/MD5 checksum: 90026 9b788319cb954d7cf687c3eb0b410eef mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 75046 26f79e015c2d4df43d0fe96e9a128416 mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 75056 ec377db9df88eb197355451879f1c28b s390 architecture (IBM S/390) Size/MD5 checksum: 72406 53f9a23da464947ccd421ae5e1af99a8 sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC) Size/MD5 checksum: 71428 548b97ce3a610f011f4e4c48d4f48dd0 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org