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Debian DSA-093-1 : postfix - remote DoS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 14930

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Wietse Venema reported he found a denial of service vulnerability in postfix. The SMTP session log that postfix keeps for debugging purposes could grow to an unreasonable size.

Solution

This has been fixed in version 0.0.19991231pl11-2.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-093

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 14930

File Name: debian_DSA-093.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postfix, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:2.2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 12/12/2001

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2001-0894

DSA: 093