CVE-2011-1720

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517917/100/0/threaded
• http://www.postfix.org/CVE-2011-1720.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/44500
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47778
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-33.xml
• http://www.osvdb.org/72259
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/727230
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025521
• http://www.mail-archive.com/postfix-announce%40postfix.org/msg00007.html
• http://www.postfix.org/announcements/postfix-2.8.3.html
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8247
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-05/msg00002.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699035
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:090
• http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
• http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2233
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1131-1
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67359

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