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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.61534
Category:Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2008:190 (postfix)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to postfix
announced via advisory MDVSA-2008:190.

A vulnerability in Postfix 2.4 and later was discovered, when
running on Linux kernel 2.6, where a local user could cause a denial
of service due to Postfix leaking the epoll file descriptor when
executing non-Postfix commands (CVE-2008-3889).

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Affected: 2008.0, 2008.1

Solution:
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2008:190
http://www.postfix.org/announcements/20080902.html

Risk factor : Medium

CVSS Score:
2.1

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-3889
BugTraq ID: 30977
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30977
Bugtraq: 20080902 Postfix Linux-only local denial of service (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495894/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20080916 [Suspected Spam][CVE-2008-4042] Postfix Linux-only local denial of service - PoC (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496420/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20081104 rPSA-2008-0311-1 postfix (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498037/100/0/threaded
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6472
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00287.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00271.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-09.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:190
http://www.wekk.net/research/CVE-2008-3889/
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020800
http://secunia.com/advisories/31716
http://secunia.com/advisories/31800
http://secunia.com/advisories/31982
http://secunia.com/advisories/31986
http://secunia.com/advisories/32231
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4239
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2008:018 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-642-1
XForce ISS Database: postfix-filedescriptor-dos(44865)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44865
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