[SECURITY] [DSA 1361-1] New postfix-policyd packages fix arbitrary code execution

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• ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1361 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Steve Kemp August 29th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : postfix-policyd
Vulnerability  : buffer overflow
Problem type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s)      : CVE-2007-3791
Debian Bug     : 435735

It was discovered that postfix-policyd, an anti-spam plugin for postfix, didn't correctly bounds-test incoming SMTP commands potentially allowing the remote exploitation of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.80-2.1etch1.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), this package was not present.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem was fixed in version 1.80-2.2.

We recommend that you upgrade your postfix-policyd package.

Upgrade instructions

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wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:

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apt-get update

        will update the internal database apt-get upgrade

        will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch

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Source archives:

  
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix-policyd/postfix-policyd_1.80-2.1etch1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum:    11391 3b110e0653af37a0367abac9a2cc303b
  
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix-policyd/postfix-policyd_1.80-2.1etch1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum:      661 1da40619537632f9986db4da5ec1f1bf
  
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix-policyd/postfix-policyd_1.80.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum:    67138 3d6caea3c5ef4a1b97816180a21a94f3

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix-policyd/postfix-policyd_1.80-2.1etch1_alpha.deb     Size/MD5 checksum: 77270 07b5622f7801eb74ec409337f49581b9

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amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix-policyd/postfix-policyd_1.80-2.1etch1_amd64.deb     Size/MD5 checksum: 74814 4aae549d216b8653e0817ed7368ed70a

arm architecture (ARM)

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix-policyd/postfix-policyd_1.80-2.1etch1_arm.deb     Size/MD5 checksum: 74760 0eee0050d13f6aa3a41a52764fca3bce

hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix-policyd/postfix-policyd_1.80-2.1etch1_hppa.deb     Size/MD5 checksum: 76708 52fad04d43236faf0617d1585bff6632

i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix-policyd/postfix-policyd_1.80-2.1etch1_i386.deb     Size/MD5 checksum: 69196 be22b73cc4c4d9d050ba55170f161dc5

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ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix-policyd/postfix-policyd_1.80-2.1etch1_ia64.deb     Size/MD5 checksum: 90026 9b788319cb954d7cf687c3eb0b410eef

mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix-policyd/postfix-policyd_1.80-2.1etch1_mips.deb     Size/MD5 checksum: 75046 26f79e015c2d4df43d0fe96e9a128416

mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix-policyd/postfix-policyd_1.80-2.1etch1_mipsel.deb     Size/MD5 checksum: 75056 ec377db9df88eb197355451879f1c28b

s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix-policyd/postfix-policyd_1.80-2.1etch1_s390.deb     Size/MD5 checksum: 72406 53f9a23da464947ccd421ae5e1af99a8

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sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix-policyd/postfix-policyd_1.80-2.1etch1_sparc.deb     Size/MD5 checksum: 71428 548b97ce3a610f011f4e4c48d4f48dd0

  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on   its next update.

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Received on Wed Aug 29 16:53:59 2007