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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-8595 (postfix)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: postfix-2.5.5-1.fc8
Date:  Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:31:27 +0000
Message-ID:  <20081009213127.5F8CF208974@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-8595 2008-10-09 04:48:12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : postfix Product : Fedora 8 Version : 2.5.5 Release : 1.fc8 URL : http://www.postfix.org Summary : Postfix Mail Transport Agent Description : Postfix is a Mail Transport Agent (MTA), supporting LDAP, SMTP AUTH (SASL), TLS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: New upstream patch level version 2.5.5, including multiple security fixes detailed in upstream announcements: http://www.postfix.org/announcements/20080814.html http://www.postfix.org/announcements/20080902.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Sep 17 2008 Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com> 2:2.5.5-1 - new version 2.5.5 fixes CVE-2008-2936, CVE-2008-2937 and CVE-2008-3889 (rhbz#459101) * Thu Aug 28 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> 2:2.5.1-4 - fix license tag * Thu Aug 14 2008 Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com> 2:2.5.1-3 - fixed postfix privilege problem with symlinks in the mail spool directory (CVE-2008-2936) (rhbz#459101) * Wed Mar 12 2008 Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com> 2:2.5.1-2 - fixed fix for enabling IPv6 support (rhbz#437024) - added new postfix data directory (rhbz#437042) * Thu Feb 21 2008 Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com> 2:2.5.1-1 - new verison 2.5.1 * Wed Feb 20 2008 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@fedoraproject.org> - 2:2.4.6-3 - Autorebuild for GCC 4.3 * Thu Dec 6 2007 Release Engineering <rel-eng at fedoraproject dot org> - 2.4.6-2 - Rebuild for deps * Wed Nov 28 2007 Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com> 2:2.4.6-1 - new verison 2.4.6 - added virtual server(smtp) provide (rhbz#380631) - enabling IPv6 support (rhbz#197105) - made the MYSQL and PGSQL defines overloadable as build argument * Wed Nov 7 2007 Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com> 2:2.4.5-3 - fixed multilib conflict for makedefs.out: rename to makedefs.out-ppc (rhbz#342941) - enabled mysql support -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #456314 - CVE-2008-2936 postfix privilege escalation flaw https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456314 [ 2 ] Bug #456347 - CVE-2008-2937 postfix improper mailbox permissions https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456347 [ 3 ] Bug #460906 - CVE-2008-3889 postfix: local DoS via leaked file descriptor https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460906 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update postfix' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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