Summary
The remote host is missing an update to libspf2
announced via advisory DSA 1659-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201659-1
Insight
Dan Kaminsky discovered that libspf2, an implementation of the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) used by mail servers for mail filtering, handles malformed TXT records incorrectly, leading to a buffer overflow condition (CVE-2008-2469).
Note that the SPF configuration template in Debian's Exim configuration recommends to use libmail-spf-query-perl, which does not suffer from this issue.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.5-4+etch1.
For the testing distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.5.dfsg-5+lenny1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your libspf2 package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-2469 -
CVSS Base Score: 10.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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