Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1121-1 postgrey -- format string
- Date Reported:
- 24 Jul 2006
- Affected Packages:
- postgrey
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-1127.
- More information:
-
Peter Bieringer discovered that postgrey, a greylisting implementation for Postfix, is vulnerable to a format string attack that allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service to the daemon.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.21-1sarge1.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has also been fixed in version 1.21-1volatile4 in the volatile archive.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.22-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your postgrey package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postgrey/postgrey_1.21-1sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postgrey/postgrey_1.21-1sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postgrey/postgrey_1.21.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postgrey/postgrey_1.21-1sarge1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postgrey/postgrey_1.21-1sarge1_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.