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Debian 4.0 DSA-1629-2 Critical: Postfix Installation Error on i386

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Calendar Grey August 19, 2008
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Essential patch addressing Postfix setup problems on i386 architecture for Debian users, guaranteeing adherence to mail transmission security standards.
Note that only specific configurations are vulnerable; the default Debian installation is not affected

Summary


Note that only specific configurations are vulnerable; the default
Debian installation is not affected. Only a configuration meeting
the following requirements is vulnerable:
* The mail delivery style is mailbox, with the Postfix built-in
local(8) or virtual(8) delivery agents.
* The mail spool directory (/var/spool/mail) is user-writeable.
* The user can create hardlinks pointing to root-owned symlinks
located in other directories.

For a detailed treating of the issue, please refer to the upstream
author's announcement:

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.8-2+etch1.

For the testing distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.5.2-2lenny1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed
in version 2.5.4-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your postfix package.

Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the refer...

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