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High ALAS2-2024-2420 1 CVE

Important: postfix security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jan 19, 2024 · Updated Jan 22, 2024

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-51764: Postfix through 3.8.4 allows SMTP smuggling unless configured with smtpd_data_restrictions=reject_unauth_pipelining and smtpd_discard_ehlo_keywords=chunking (or certain other options that exist in recent versions). Remote attackers can use a published exploitation technique to inject e-mail messages with a spoofed MAIL FROM address, allowing bypass of an SPF protection mechanism. This occurs because Postfix supports <LF>.<CR><LF> but some other popular e-mail servers do not. To prevent attack variants (by always disallowing <LF> without <CR>), a different solution is required: the smtpd_forbid_bare_newline=yes option with a Postfix minimum version of 3.5.23, 3.6.13, 3.7.9, 3.8.4, or 3.9.

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 postfix 2:2.10.1-6.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 postfix-debuginfo 2:2.10.1-6.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 postfix-perl-scripts 2:2.10.1-6.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 postfix-sysvinit 2:2.10.1-6.amzn2.0.4

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-51764.html