Debian: DSA-1361 Critical Update: Postfix-Policyd Remote Code Execution
debian
August 29, 2007
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 arbit...
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Summary
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
Size/MD5 checksum: 11391 3b110e0653af37a0367abac9a2cc303b
Size/MD5 checksum: 661 1da40619537632f9986db4da5ec1f1bf
Size/MD5 checksum: 67138 3d6caea3c5ef4a1b97816180a21a94f3
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