DSA-093-1 postfix -- remote DoS

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-093-1 postfix -- remote DoS

Date Reported:

12 Dec 2001

Affected Packages:

postfix

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2001-0894.

More information:

Wietse Venema reported he found a denial of service vulnerability in postfix. The SMTP session log that postfix keeps for debugging purposes could grow to an unreasonable size.

This has been fixed in version 0.0.19991231pl11-2.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11-2.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11-2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11-2_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11-2_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11-2_i386.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11-2_m68k.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11-2_powerpc.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11-2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.