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CVE-2008-3889 at MITRE

Description

Postfix 2.4 before 2.4.9, 2.5 before 2.5.5, and 2.6 before 2.6-20080902, when used with the Linux 2.6 kernel, leaks epoll file descriptors during execution of "non-Postfix" commands, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (application slowdown or exit) via a crafted command, as demonstrated by a command in a .forward file.

NVD CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Novell/SUSE information

Novell Bugzilla entry: 421847

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE 10.3
  • postfix >= 2.4.5-20.6
  • postfix-devel >= 2.4.5-20.6
  • postfix-mysql >= 2.4.5-20.6
  • postfix-postgresql >= 2.4.5-20.6

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