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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-8593 (postfix)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: postfix-2.5.5-1.fc9
Date:  Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:33:24 +0000
Message-ID:  <20081009213324.71804208749@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-8593 2008-10-09 04:46:39 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : postfix Product : Fedora 9 Version : 2.5.5 Release : 1.fc9 URL : http://www.postfix.org Summary : Postfix Mail Transport Agent Description : Postfix is a Mail Transport Agent (MTA), supporting LDAP, SMTP AUTH (SASL), TLS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: New upstream patch level version 2.5.5, including multiple security fixes detailed in upstream announcements: http://www.postfix.org/announcements/20080814.html http://www.postfix.org/announcements/20080902.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Sep 17 2008 Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com> 2:2.5.5-1 - new version 2.5.5 fixes CVE-2008-2936, CVE-2008-2937 and CVE-2008-3889 (rhbz#459101) * Thu Aug 28 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> 2:2.5.1-4 - fix license tag * Thu Aug 14 2008 Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com> 2:2.5.1-3 - fixed postfix privilege problem with symlinks in the mail spool directory (CVE-2008-2936) (rhbz#459100) * Mon May 19 2008 Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> 2:2.5.1-2.1 - rebuild for sparc -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #456347 - CVE-2008-2937 postfix improper mailbox permissions https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456347 [ 2 ] Bug #456314 - CVE-2008-2936 postfix privilege escalation flaw https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456314 [ 3 ] Bug #460906 - CVE-2008-3889 postfix: local DoS via leaked file descriptor https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460906 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update postfix' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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