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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2016-7203764343
2016-05-31 13:52:36.482901
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Name : opensmtpd
Product : Fedora 23
Version : 5.9.2p1
Release : 1.fc23
URL :
http://www.opensmtpd.org/
Summary : Free implementation of the server-side SMTP protocol as defined by RFC 5321
Description :
OpenSMTPD is a FREE implementation of the server-side SMTP protocol as defined
by RFC 5321, with some additional standard extensions. It allows ordinary
machines to exchange e-mails with other systems speaking the SMTP protocol.
Started out of dissatisfaction with other implementations, OpenSMTPD nowadays
is a fairly complete SMTP implementation. OpenSMTPD is primarily developed
by Gilles Chehade, Eric Faurot and Charles Longeau; with contributions from
various OpenBSD hackers. OpenSMTPD is part of the OpenBSD Project.
The software is freely usable and re-usable by everyone under an ISC license.
This package uses standard "alternatives" mechanism, you may call
"/usr/sbin/alternatives --set mta /usr/sbin/sendmail.opensmtpd"
if you want to switch to OpenSMTPD MTA immediately after install, and
"/usr/sbin/alternatives --set mta /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail" to revert
back to Sendmail as a default mail daemon.
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Update Information:
Issues fixed in this release (since 5.7.3): --- - remove dead code - tons of
code cleanup and simplification - tons of code adaptations to ease portability -
reduce memory usage by invalidating envelopes cache earlier - simplify a great
deal the smtp session code - get rid of 'kick' mechanism, we'll reintroduce a
better one - all smtpd processes now use the pledge() API - kill support for
'dbm' db type, it cannot be made to work for us - introduce "listen on
socket" -
enqueuer is now setgid to avoid attacks against offline queue [1] - fix mailq /
smtpctl show queue breakage - plug two memory leaks and one descriptor leak -
fix error code path for delivery loop that can lead to a fatal() [1] follow-up
to the Qualys Security audit fixes from 5.7.3
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1336601 - opensmtpd-5.9.2p1 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1336601
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update opensmtpd' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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