Debian Security Advisory
DSA-363-1 postfix -- denial of service, bounce-scanning
- Date Reported:
- 03 Aug 2003
- Affected Packages:
- postfix
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0468, CVE-2003-0540.
- More information:
-
The postfix mail transport agent in Debian 3.0 contains two vulnerabilities:
- CAN-2003-0468: Postfix would allow an attacker to bounce-scan private networks or use the daemon as a DDoS tool by forcing the daemon to connect to an arbitrary service at an arbitrary IP address and either receiving a bounce message or observing queue operations to infer the status of the delivery attempt.
- CAN-2003-0540: a malformed envelope address can 1) cause the queue manager to lock up until an entry is removed from the queue and 2) lock up the smtp listener leading to a denial of service.
For the current stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 1.1.11-0.woody3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you update your postfix package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix_1.1.11-0.woody3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix_1.1.11-0.woody3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix_1.1.11.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix_1.1.11-0.woody3.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-dev_1.1.11-0.woody3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-doc_1.1.11-0.woody3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-doc_1.1.11-0.woody3_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix_1.1.11-0.woody3_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-ldap_1.1.11-0.woody3_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-mysql_1.1.11-0.woody3_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-pcre_1.1.11-0.woody3_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-ldap_1.1.11-0.woody3_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix_1.1.11-0.woody3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-ldap_1.1.11-0.woody3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-mysql_1.1.11-0.woody3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-pcre_1.1.11-0.woody3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-ldap_1.1.11-0.woody3_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix_1.1.11-0.woody3_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-ldap_1.1.11-0.woody3_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-mysql_1.1.11-0.woody3_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-pcre_1.1.11-0.woody3_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-ldap_1.1.11-0.woody3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix_1.1.11-0.woody3_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-ldap_1.1.11-0.woody3_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-mysql_1.1.11-0.woody3_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-pcre_1.1.11-0.woody3_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-ldap_1.1.11-0.woody3_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix_1.1.11-0.woody3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-ldap_1.1.11-0.woody3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-mysql_1.1.11-0.woody3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-pcre_1.1.11-0.woody3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-ldap_1.1.11-0.woody3_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix_1.1.11-0.woody3_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-ldap_1.1.11-0.woody3_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-mysql_1.1.11-0.woody3_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-pcre_1.1.11-0.woody3_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-ldap_1.1.11-0.woody3_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix_1.1.11-0.woody3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-ldap_1.1.11-0.woody3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-mysql_1.1.11-0.woody3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-pcre_1.1.11-0.woody3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-ldap_1.1.11-0.woody3_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix_1.1.11-0.woody3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-ldap_1.1.11-0.woody3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-mysql_1.1.11-0.woody3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-pcre_1.1.11-0.woody3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-ldap_1.1.11-0.woody3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix_1.1.11-0.woody3_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-ldap_1.1.11-0.woody3_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-mysql_1.1.11-0.woody3_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-pcre_1.1.11-0.woody3_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-ldap_1.1.11-0.woody3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix_1.1.11-0.woody3_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-ldap_1.1.11-0.woody3_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-mysql_1.1.11-0.woody3_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-pcre_1.1.11-0.woody3_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-ldap_1.1.11-0.woody3_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix_1.1.11-0.woody3_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-ldap_1.1.11-0.woody3_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-mysql_1.1.11-0.woody3_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-pcre_1.1.11-0.woody3_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/postfix/postfix-ldap_1.1.11-0.woody3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.