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CVE-2011-1720
critical
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.
References
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67359
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699035
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1131-1
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025521
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47778
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517917/100/0/threaded
http://www.postfix.org/announcements/postfix-2.8.3.html
http://www.postfix.org/CVE-2011-1720.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:090
http://www.mail-archive.com/postfix-announce%40postfix.org/msg00007.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/727230
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2233
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8247
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-33.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/44500
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-05/msg00002.html
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705