gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201206-33.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201206-33">
  <title>Postfix: Multiple vulnerabilities </title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in Postfix, the worst of which
    possibly allowing remote code execution.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">Postfix</product>
  <announced>2012-06-25</announced>
  <revised count="1">2012-06-25</revised>
  <bug>358085</bug>
  <bug>366605</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="mail-mta/postfix" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.7.4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.7.4</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>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.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>A vulnerability have been discovered in Postfix. Please review the CVE
      identifier referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>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.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Postfix users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=mail-mta/postfix-2.7.4"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-0411">CVE-2011-0411</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1720">CVE-2011-1720</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata timestamp="2011-10-07T23:37:03Z" tag="requester">craig</metadata>
  <metadata timestamp="2012-06-25T18:51:42Z" tag="submitter">craig</metadata>
</glsa>