USN-4268-1: OpenSMTPD vulnerability

5 February 2020

OpenSMTPD could be made to run programs as root if it received specially crafted input over the network.

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Releases

Packages

  • opensmtpd - secure, reliable, lean, and easy-to configure SMTP server

Details

It was discovered that OpenSMTPD incorrectly verified the sender's or
receiver's e-mail addresses under certain conditions. An attacker could use
this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands as root.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.10
Ubuntu 18.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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