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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.57156
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1121)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'postgrey' package(s) announced via the DSA-1121 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'postgrey' package(s) announced via the DSA-1121 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
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.

Affected Software/OS:
'postgrey' package(s) on Debian 3.1.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.0

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-1127
BugTraq ID: 13193
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13193
Debian Security Information: DSA-1121 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1121
Debian Security Information: DSA-1122 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1122
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=111354538331167&w=2
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-18.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:131
http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/postgrey/msg00647.html
http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/postgrey/msg00627.html
http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/postgrey/msg00630.html
http://www.osvdb.org/15517
http://secunia.com/advisories/14958
http://secunia.com/advisories/21149
http://secunia.com/advisories/21152
http://secunia.com/advisories/21164
http://secunia.com/advisories/21452
XForce ISS Database: postgrey-logging-dos(20108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/20108
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