Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1121-1 postgrey -- format string

Date Reported:

24 Jul 2006

Affected Packages:

postgrey

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-1127.

More information:

Peter Bieringer discovered that postgrey, a greylisting implementation for Postfix, is vulnerable to a format string attack that allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service to the daemon.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.21-1sarge1.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has also been fixed in version 1.21-1volatile4 in the volatile archive.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.22-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your postgrey package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postgrey/postgrey_1.21-1sarge1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postgrey/postgrey_1.21-1sarge1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postgrey/postgrey_1.21.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postgrey/postgrey_1.21-1sarge1_all.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.