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Ubuntu 4.10 : postfix vulnerability (USN-74-2)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20696

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

This is an update to the recently published Ubuntu Security Notice USN-74-1, which fixed the delivery of arbitrary mail to any MX host which has an IPv6 address.

Unfortunately that upgrade revealed an error in the package upgrade system which caused package installation to fail. After the failed upgrade the Postfix server was not started again, thus no mail was delivered.

This new set of packages fixes the error encountered when upgrading.

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20696

File Name: ubuntu_USN-74-2.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postfix-mysql, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postfix, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postfix-ldap, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postfix-tls, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postfix-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postfix-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postfix-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postfix-pcre

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/4/2005

Reference Information

USN: 74-2