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ESB-2001.538 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA-093-1 -- postfix memory exhaustion
Date: 17 December 2001

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            ESB-2001.538 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA-093-1
                         postfix memory exhaustion
                             17 December 2001

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:                postfix
Vendor:                 Debian
Operating System:       Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
Platform:               Alpha
                        ARM
                        i386
                        Motorola 680x0
                        PowerPC
                        SPARC
Impact:                 Denial of Service
Access Required:        Remote

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-093-1                   security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                         Wichert Akkerman
December 12, 2001
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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
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  Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc.

  Source archives:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11-2.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: ebbd478c0feef6854bd4b82471d5db39
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11-2.dsc
      MD5 checksum: 67653116044cc7735031275317b878eb
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11.orig.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: 97c6b1912b9917cca2e1cb957b2449fd

  Alpha architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11-2_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: 338079e3346d86c95c655335b3e0649d

  ARM architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11-2_arm.deb
      MD5 checksum: 0a89e703dfd0f303690628d6deac862c

  Intel IA-32 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11-2_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: abe5ae7acbd0decde71c79f3bfaac6e7

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11-2_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: 2051d03ca9b61e4cdd6815fd67d578ef

  PowerPC architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11-2_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: e214c21f2ba7311456268f12579c7b71

  Sun Sparc architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/postfix_0.0.19991231pl11-2_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 7e588f3fa1d1682318975a88a201780b

  These packages will be moved into the stable distribution on its next
  revision.

For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ .

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apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

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