Vulnerabilities > CVE-2001-0894 - Denial Of Service vulnerability in Wietse Venema Postfix 19990906/19991231/20000228
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
Vulnerability in Postfix SMTP server before 20010228-pl07, when configured to email the postmaster when SMTP errors cause the session to terminate, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) by generating a large number of SMTP errors, which forces the SMTP session log to grow too large.
Vulnerable Configurations
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Nessus
NASL family Mandriva Local Security Checks NASL id MANDRAKE_MDKSA-2001-089.NASL description Wietse Venema, the author of postfix, reported a vulnerability in the SMTP server where a remote attacker could execute a Denial of Service attack on it. The SMTP session log could grow to an unreasonable size and could possibly exhause the server last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 13902 published 2004-07-31 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2004-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/13902 title Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : postfix (MDKSA-2001:089) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Mandrake Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2001:089. # The text itself is copyright (C) Mandriva S.A. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(13902); script_version ("1.16"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:46"); script_cve_id("CVE-2001-0894"); script_bugtraq_id(3544); script_xref(name:"MDKSA", value:"2001:089"); script_name(english:"Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : postfix (MDKSA-2001:089)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Wietse Venema, the author of postfix, reported a vulnerability in the SMTP server where a remote attacker could execute a Denial of Service attack on it. The SMTP session log could grow to an unreasonable size and could possibly exhause the server's memory if no other limits were enforced." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/240354" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected postfix package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:H/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No exploit is required"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:postfix"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:7.1"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:7.2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:8.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:8.1"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2001/11/29"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2004/07/31"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2004-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"Mandriva Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/Mandrake/release", "Host/Mandrake/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Mandrake/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Mandriva / Mandake Linux"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Mandrake/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if (cpu !~ "^(amd64|i[3-6]86|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Mandriva / Mandrake Linux", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"MDK7.1", cpu:"i386", reference:"postfix-19991231-6.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"MDK7.2", cpu:"i386", reference:"postfix-19991231_pl08-5.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"MDK8.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"postfix-20010228-6.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"MDK8.1", cpu:"i386", reference:"postfix-20010228-15.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-093.NASL description Wietse Venema reported he found a denial of service vulnerability in postfix. The SMTP session log that postfix keeps for debugging purposes could grow to an unreasonable size. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 14930 published 2004-09-29 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2004-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/14930 title Debian DSA-093-1 : postfix - remote DoS code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-093. The text # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(14930); script_version("1.15"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:16"); script_cve_id("CVE-2001-0894"); script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"093"); script_name(english:"Debian DSA-093-1 : postfix - remote DoS"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Wietse Venema reported he found a denial of service vulnerability in postfix. The SMTP session log that postfix keeps for debugging purposes could grow to an unreasonable size." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-093" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"This has been fixed in version 0.0.19991231pl11-2." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postfix"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:2.2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2001/12/12"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2004/09/29"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2004-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("debian_package.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (deb_check(release:"2.2", prefix:"postfix", reference:"0.0.19991231pl11-2")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
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References
- http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000439
- http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2001:089
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100584160110303&w=2
- http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-093
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-156.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3544
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7568