Re: smtpd errata for 5.6, 5.7 and 5.8

2015-10-02 Thread Gilles Chehade
On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 05:17:39AM +0200, Gilles Chehade wrote: > During the last few months, researchers from Qualys Security have done > an audit of smtpd and have identified multiple reliability and security > issues. > > The issues affect 5.6, 5.7 and forthcoming 5.8 release. > > Patches are

smtpd errata for 5.6, 5.7 and 5.8

2015-10-01 Thread Gilles Chehade
During the last few months, researchers from Qualys Security have done an audit of smtpd and have identified multiple reliability and security issues. The issues affect 5.6, 5.7 and forthcoming 5.8 release. Patches are available. Apply the patch, rebuild smtpd and restart the daemon. 5.6: http:/

smtpd errata

2015-06-11 Thread Gilles Chehade
Patches are now available for 5.6 and 5.7 which fix an smtpd errata. 5.6 errata 25 and 5.7 errata 8: Fix multiple reliability issues in smtpd: a local user can cause smtpd to fail by writing an invalid imsg to control socket. a local user can prevent smtpd from serving new requests by exhausting