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PLSA-2008-40.txt

Posted on 06 September 2008
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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2008-40 security@pardus.org.tr
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Date: 2008-09-06
Severity: 1
Type: Local
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Summary
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A security issue has been reported in Postfix, which can be exploited by
malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).


Description
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The security issue is caused due to Postfix leaking the epoll file
descriptor when executing non-Postfix commands, which can be exploited
to cause a DoS.



The security issue only affects Postfix 2.4 or later in combination with
epoll (e.g. Linux 2.6).



Affected packages:

Pardus 2008:
postfix, all before 2.5.4-21-5


Resolution
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There are update(s) for postfix. You can update them via Package Manager
or with a single command from console:

pisi up postfix

References
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* http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=8114
* http://www.postfix.org/announcements/20080902.html
* http://secunia.com/advisories/31716/

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Pınar Yanardağ
Pardus Security Team
http://security.pardus.org.tr


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