Postfix Linux only local denial of service

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Tue, 09/02/2008 - 08:42

Postfix 2.4 and later, on Linux kernel 2.6, is vulnerable to a denial of service attack by a local user.


 

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