| Description: | Postfix is a Mail Transport Agent (MTA), supporting LDAP, SMTP AUTH (SASL), and TLS.
A heap-based buffer over-read flaw was found in the way Postfix performed SASL handlers management for SMTP sessions, when Cyrus SASL authentication was enabled. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause the Postfix smtpd server to crash via a specially-crafted SASL authentication request. The smtpd process was automatically restarted by the postfix master process after the time configured with service_throttle_time elapsed. (CVE-2011-1720)
Note: Cyrus SASL authentication for Postfix is not enabled by default.
Red Hat would like to thank the CERT/CC for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Thomas Jarosch of Intra2net AG as the original reporter.
Users of Postfix are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. After installing this update, the postfix service will be restarted automatically.
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