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Fedora 14 : postfix-2.7.4-1.fc14 (2011-6771)

high Nessus Plugin ID 54292

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is an update that fixes memory corruption in Postfix SMTP server Cyrus SASL support (CVE-2011-1720). For original upstream announcement see: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2011-05/0208.html

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected postfix package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?17ceb8e4

http://www.nessus.org/u?a36aa2b5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 54292

File Name: fedora_2011-6771.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/18/2011

Updated: 4/2/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:14, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:postfix

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 5/9/2011

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2011-6771