Fedora 8: 2023:0011-1 Critical: Postfix Privilege Escalation and DoS

Postfix is a Mail Transport Agent (MTA), supporting LDAP, SMTP AUTH (SASL),

TLS

New upstream patch level version 2.5.5, including multiple security fixes

detailed in upstream announcements:

http://www.postfix.org/announcements/20080814.html

http://www.postfix.org/announcements/20080902.html

* Wed Sep 17 2008 Thomas Woerner 2:2.5.5-1

- new version 2.5.5

fixes CVE-2008-2936, CVE-2008-2937 and CVE-2008-3889 (rhbz#459101)

* Thu Aug 28 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway 2:2.5.1-4

- fix license tag

* Thu Aug 14 2008 Thomas Woerner 2:2.5.1-3

- fixed postfix privilege problem with symlinks in the mail spool directory

(CVE-2008-2936) (rhbz#459101)

* Wed Mar 12 2008 Thomas Woerner 2:2.5.1-2

- fixed fix for enabling IPv6 support (rhbz#437024)

- added new postfix data directory (rhbz#437042)

* Thu Feb 21 2008 Thomas Woerner 2:2.5.1-1

- new verison 2.5.1

* Wed Feb 20 2008 Fedora Release Engineering - 2:2.4.6-3

- Autorebuild for GCC 4.3

* Thu Dec 6 2007 Release Engineering - 2.4.6-2

- Rebuild for deps

* Wed Nov 28 2007 Thomas Woerner 2:2.4.6-1

- new verison 2.4.6

- added virtual server(smtp) provide (rhbz#380631)

- enabling IPv6 support (rhbz#197105)

- made the MYSQL and PGSQL defines overloadable as build argument

* Wed Nov 7 2007 Thomas Woerner 2:2.4.5-3

- fixed multilib conflict for makedefs.out: rename to makedefs.out-ppc

(rhbz#342941)

- enabled mysql support

[ 1 ] Bug #456314 - CVE-2008-2936 postfix privilege escalation flaw

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456314

[ 2 ] Bug #456347 - CVE-2008-2937 postfix improper mailbox permissions

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456347

[ 3 ] Bug #460906 - CVE-2008-3889 postfix: local DoS via leaked file descriptor

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460906

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