ubuntu · CVE-2011-1720

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Priority: medium Published: 2011-05-11 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2024-07-24 15:57:39 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2011-1720 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (postfix), 6 status rows across 6 suites (dapper, hardy, lucid, maverick, natty, upstream): released 6.

Description:

The SMTP server in Postfix before 2.5.13, 2.6.x before 2.6.10, 2.7.x before 2.7.4, and 2.8.x before 2.8.3, when certain Cyrus SASL authentication methods are enabled, does not create a new server handle after client authentication fails, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an invalid AUTH command with one method followed by an AUTH command with a different method.

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