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Fedora 15 : postfix-2.8.3-1.fc15 (2011-6784)

high Nessus Plugin ID 54573

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is an update that fixes memory corruption in Postfix SMTP server Cyrus SASL support (CVE-2011-1720). For original upstream announcement see: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2011-05/0208.html

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected postfix package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?17ceb8e4

http://www.nessus.org/u?f19797ea

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 54573

File Name: fedora_2011-6784.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/19/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:postfix, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/9/2011

Reference Information

BID: 47778

FEDORA: 2011-6784