National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2003-0468

Overview

Postfix 1.1.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to use Postfix to conduct "bounce scans" or DDos attacks of other hosts via an email address to the local host containing the target IP address and service name followed by a "!" string, which causes Postfix to attempt to use SMTP to communicate with the target on the associated port.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 incomplete approximation):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-363

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-363

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20030804 Postfix 1.1.12 remote DoS / Postfix 1.1.11 bounce scanning

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=106001525130257&w=2

External Source: BID

Name: 8333

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8333

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2003:251

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-251.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SuSE-SA:2003:033

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_033_postfix.html

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 9433

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/9433

External Source: MANDRAKE

Name: MDKSA-2003:081

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:081

External Source: CONECTIVA

Name: CLA-2003:717

Hyperlink:http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000717

US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:522

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:522

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:522

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:522

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:522