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Debian Potato: DSA-093-1 Critical DoS Threat in Postfix

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Calendar Grey December 12, 2001
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An identified vulnerability in postfix concerning overextension could cause excessive growth of log files; it is advisable to apply an update.
Wietse Venema reported he found a denial of service vulnerability inpostfix

Summary


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:

MD5 checksum: ebbd478c0feef6854bd4b82471d5db39

MD5 checksum: 67653116044cc7735031275317b878eb

MD5 checksum: 97c6b1912b9917cca2e1cb957b2449fd

Alpha architecture:

MD5 checksum: 338079e3346d86c95c655335b3e0649d

ARM architecture:

MD5 checksum: 0a89e703dfd0f303690628d6deac862c

Intel IA-32 architecture:

MD5 checksum: abe5ae7acbd0decde71c79f3bfaac6e7

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

MD5 checksum: 2051d03ca9b61...

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