Debian Security Advisory: postfix memory exhaustion

From:   Wichert Akkerman 
Reply-To:       security@debian.org
To:     debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject:        [SECURITY] [DSA-093-1] postfix memory exhaustion
Date:   12 Dec 2001 17:23:38 +0100      


Package        : postfix
Problem type   : remote DoS
Debian-specific: no

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.

wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
- ---------------------------------

  Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc.

  Source archives:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11-2.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: ebbd478c0feef6854bd4b82471d5db39
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11-2.dsc
      MD5 checksum: 67653116044cc7735031275317b878eb
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11.orig.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: 97c6b1912b9917cca2e1cb957b2449fd

  Alpha architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11-2_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: 338079e3346d86c95c655335b3e0649d

  ARM architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11-2_arm.deb
      MD5 checksum: 0a89e703dfd0f303690628d6deac862c

  Intel IA-32 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11-2_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: abe5ae7acbd0decde71c79f3bfaac6e7

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11-2_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: 2051d03ca9b61e4cdd6815fd67d578ef

  PowerPC architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11-2_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: e214c21f2ba7311456268f12579c7b71

  Sun Sparc architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11-2_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 7e588f3fa1d1682318975a88a201780b

  These packages will be moved into the stable distribution on its next
  revision.

For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ .

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