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Gentoo: GLSA-202311-42 Critical: Nginx Security Vulnerabilities Detected

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Calendar Grey June 25, 2012
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Critical alert issued for Gentoo Postfix concerning remote execution vulnerabilities arising from various flaws.
A vulnerability has been found in Postfix, the worst of which possibly allowing remote code execution.

Summary

A vulnerability have been discovered in Postfix. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo high severity remote execution multiple issues mail server Postfix

Resolution

All Postfix users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-mta/postfix-2.7.4"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2011-0411 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-0411 [ 2 ] CVE-2011-1720 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1720

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201206-33
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

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Severity: High
Title: Postfix: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: June 25, 2012
Bugs: #358085, #366605
ID: 201206-33

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo high severity remote execution multiple issues mail server Postfix

Synopsis

A vulnerability has been found in Postfix, the worst of which possibly allowing remote code execution.

Background

Postfix is Wietse Venema’s mailer that attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure, as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 mail-mta/postfix < 2.7.4 >= 2.7.4

Impact

===== An attacker could perform a man-in-the-middle attack and inject SMTP commands during the plaintext to TLS session switch or might execute arbitrary code.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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