Summary
The remote host is missing an update to postfix
announced via advisory DSA 2233-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202233-1
Insight
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Postfix, a mail transfer agent. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2009-2939
The postinst script grants the postfix user write access to /var/spool/postfix/pid, which might allow local users to conduct symlink attacks that overwrite arbitrary files.
CVE-2011-0411
The STARTTLS implementation does not properly restrict I/O buffering, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to insert commands into encrypted SMTP sessions by sending a cleartext command that is processed after TLS is in place.
CVE-2011-1720
A heap-based read-only buffer overflow allows malicious clients to crash the smtpd server process using a crafted SASL authentication request.
For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.5-1.1+lenny1.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.7.1-1+squeeze1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.0-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your postfix packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-2939, CVE-2011-0411, CVE-2011-1720 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.9
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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