Debian DSA-093-1 : postfix - remote DoS

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. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extract...

CVE-2001-0894

Postfix SMTP server (pre-20010228-pl07) is affected by a remote DoS: when configured to email the postmaster on SMTP errors, a storm of errors can cause the SMTP session log to grow, leading to memory exhaustion. Debian advisory DSA-093-1 and OpenVAS/NESL entries corroborate a remote DoS due to e...