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postfix: denial of service

Package(s):postfix CVE #(s):CVE-2008-3889
Created:September 11, 2008 Updated:November 4, 2008
Description: From the Mandriva alert: 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.
Alerts:
rPath rPSA-2008-0311-1 2008-11-04
Fedora FEDORA-2008-8595 2008-10-09
Fedora FEDORA-2008-8593 2008-10-09
Gentoo 200809-09 2008-09-19
SuSE SUSE-SR:2008:018 2008-09-19
Ubuntu USN-642-1 2008-09-10
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:190 2008-09-10
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