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Red Hat Powertools 7.1 RHSA-2001:156-05 Critical Postfix DoS

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Calendar Grey November 28, 2001
Dist Redhat Esm H88
New improvements in postscript offerings address potential service disruption threats by tackling memory exhaustion problems within Red Hat Powertools.
Updated postfix packages are now availble that will fix a possible denialof service attack.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

To update all RPMs for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filenames]

where [filenames] is a list of the RPMs you wish to upgrade. Only those RPMs which are currently installed will be updated. Those RPMs which are not installed but included in the list will not be updated. Note that you can also use wildcards (*.rpm) if your current directory *only* contains the desired RPMs.

Please note that this update is also available via Red Hat Network. Many people find this an easier way to apply updates. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system.

5. Bug IDs fixed ( for more info):



6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Powertools 7.1:

SRPMS:


alpha:


i386:




7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name 3f226c17cd8a8955826c3aced3f77947 7.1/en/powertools/SRPMS/postfix-20011125-1SASL.src.rpm ba0706ce0d6e6c453a8e1afcab248eac 7.1/en/powertools/alpha/postfix-20011125-1SASL.alpha.rpm 60402b08bd489052146eec437838a829 7.1/en/powertools/i386/postfix-20011125-1SASL.i386.rpm


These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our key is available at: About

You can verify each package with the following command: rpm --checksig

If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command: rpm --checksig --nogpg

Summary

References

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2001:156-05
Issue date: 2001-11-15
Updated on: 2001-11-27
Product: Red Hat Powertools
Keywords: postfix session log memory exhaustion denial of service
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Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Powertools 7.1 - alpha, i386

Bugs Fixed

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