SB2021012147 - Fedora 32 update for opensmtpd
Published: January 21, 2021
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.
1) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-35679)
CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due memory leak in smtpd/table.c when processing messages. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted message and trigger the daemon to perform multiple regex lookups, which in turn will leak memory.
2) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-35680)
CWE-ID: CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error in smtpd/lka_filter.c in certain configurations. A remote attacker can trigger denial of service conditions via a crafted pattern of client activity, because the filter state machine does not properly maintain the I/O channel between the SMTP engine and the filters layer.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.