GLSA 200809-09 Postfix: Denial of Service

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200809-09
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Severity: Normal
Title: Postfix: Denial of Service
Date: September 19, 2008
Bugs: #236453
ID: 200809-09

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Synopsis
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A memory leak in Postfix might allow local users to cause a Denial of
Service.

Background
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Postfix is Wietse Venema's mailer that attempts to be fast, easy to
administer, and secure, as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail
program.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 mail-mta/postfix lt; 2.4.9 gt;=3D 2.4.=
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gt;=3D 2.5.=
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mail-mta/postfix lt; 2.5.5 gt;=3D 2.4.=
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gt;=3D 2.5.=
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Description
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It has been discovered than Postfix leaks an epoll file descriptor when
executing external commands, e.g. user-controlled $HOME/.forward or
$HOME/.procmailrc files. NOTE: This vulnerability only concerns Postfix
instances running on Linux 2.6 kernels.

Impact
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A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to reduce the
performance of Postfix, and possibly trigger an assertion, resulting in
a Denial of Service.

Workaround
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Allow only trusted users to control delivery to non-Postfix commands.

Resolution
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All Postfix 2.4 users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "gt;=3Dmail-mta/postfix-2.4.9"

All Postfix 2.5 users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "gt;=3Dmail-mta/postfix-2.5.5"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2008-3889
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2008-3889

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-09.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2008 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5