Summary
The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.
Solution
Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades.
http://www.postfix.org/CVE-2011-0411.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/43646/
http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/14a6f516-502f-11e0-b448-bbfa2731f9c7.html
Insight
The following packages are affected:
postfix
postfix-base
postfix-current
postfix-current-base
CVE-2011-0411
The STARTTLS implementation in Postfix 2.4.x before 2.4.16, 2.5.x before 2.5.12, 2.6.x before 2.6.9, and 2.7.x before 2.7.3 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, related to a 'plaintext command injection' attack.
Severity
Classification
-
CVE CVE-2011-0411 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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