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CentOS Update for postfix CESA-2011:0422 centos4 x86_64

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

CentOS Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.8

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

11 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update for the 'postfix' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.

Insight

Insight

Postfix is a Mail Transport Agent (MTA), supporting LDAP, SMTP AUTH (SASL), and TLS. It was discovered that Postfix did not flush the received SMTP commands buffer after switching to TLS encryption for an SMTP session. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to inject SMTP commands into a victim's session during the plain text phase. This would lead to those commands being processed by Postfix after TLS encryption is enabled, possibly allowing the attacker to steal the victim's mail or authentication credentials. (CVE-2011-0411) It was discovered that Postfix did not properly check the permissions of users' mailbox files. A local attacker able to create files in the mail spool directory could use this flaw to create mailbox files for other local users, and be able to read mail delivered to those users. (CVE-2008-2937) Red Hat would like to thank the CERT/CC for reporting CVE-2011-0411, and Sebastian Krahmer of the SuSE Security Team for reporting CVE-2008-2937. The CERT/CC acknowledges Wietse Venema as the original reporter of CVE-2011-0411. Users of Postfix are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. After installing this update, the postfix service will be restarted automatically.

Affected Software

Affected Software

postfix on CentOS 4

Solution

Solution

Please install the updated packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)