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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2016-4d31b8366b
2016-10-30 20:22:58.424914
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Name : opensmtpd
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 6.0.2p1
Release : 1.el6
URL :
http://www.opensmtpd.org/
Summary : Free implementation of the server-side SMTP protocol as defined by RFC 5321
Description :
OpenSMTPD is a FREE implementation of the server-side SMTP protocol as defined
by RFC 5321, with some additional standard extensions. It allows ordinary
machines to exchange e-mails with other systems speaking the SMTP protocol.
Started out of dissatisfaction with other implementations, OpenSMTPD nowadays
is a fairly complete SMTP implementation. OpenSMTPD is primarily developed
by Gilles Chehade, Eric Faurot and Charles Longeau; with contributions from
various OpenBSD hackers. OpenSMTPD is part of the OpenBSD Project.
The software is freely usable and re-usable by everyone under an ISC license.
This package uses standard "alternatives" mechanism, you may call
"/usr/sbin/alternatives --set mta /usr/sbin/sendmail.opensmtpd"
if you want to switch to OpenSMTPD MTA immediately after install, and
"/usr/sbin/alternatives --set mta /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail" to revert
back to Sendmail as a default mail daemon.
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Update Information:
Changes in this release (since 6.0.1): --- - A bug in the smtp session logic
can lead to hanging sessions. [1] - A bug in portable OpenSMTPD can lead to a
server crash if PAM support is disabled and an attacker send a mail to an
account that has been disabled by setting password to a value that is causing
the crypt() call to fail. [2] [1] found and reported by James Pole [2] found
and reported by Patrick Seeburger (CVE-2016-8594) ---- Changes in this release
(since 6.0.0): --- - A bug in the smtp session logic can lead to a server
crash. [1] [1] found and reported by Mickael Torres, thanks !
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1384046 - None
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384046
[ 2 ] Bug #1381402 - None
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1381402
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update opensmtpd' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "YUM", available at
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/...
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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