Issued:
2014-09-16
Updated:
2014-09-16

RHBA-2014:1226 - postfix bug fix update

Synopsis

postfix bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated postfix packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

Postfix is a Mail Transport Agent (MTA), supporting LDAP, SMTP AUTH (SASL), and TLS.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Previously, the postfix packages had redundant explicitly specified dependencies. This could block from installing third party packages which fulfilled the implicit dependencies. To fix this bug, the redundant explicit dependencies have been removed. As a result, any third party packages can now be used. (BZ#915901)

  • Previously, the Transport Layer Security (TLS) session cache was created in the /var/spool/postfix/ directory with the root user as owner. This could cause various problems if the cache was accessed by an unprivileged process of the tlsmgr daemon, including a tlsmgr failure. With this update, the TLS session cache I/O operations are redirected and the cache is now created in /var/lib/postfix/ with the correct Postfix owner. (BZ#977629)

Users of postfix are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs. After installing this update, the postfix service will be restarted automatically.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • postfix-2.3.3-7.el5.ppc.rpm
  • postfix-pflogsumm-2.3.3-7.el5.i386.rpm
  • postfix-pflogsumm-2.3.3-7.el5.s390x.rpm
  • postfix-2.3.3-7.el5.src.rpm
  • postfix-debuginfo-2.3.3-7.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • postfix-2.3.3-7.el5.s390x.rpm
  • postfix-pflogsumm-2.3.3-7.el5.ia64.rpm
  • postfix-debuginfo-2.3.3-7.el5.i386.rpm
  • postfix-debuginfo-2.3.3-7.el5.ppc.rpm
  • postfix-debuginfo-2.3.3-7.el5.ia64.rpm
  • postfix-pflogsumm-2.3.3-7.el5.ppc.rpm
  • postfix-pflogsumm-2.3.3-7.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • postfix-2.3.3-7.el5.i386.rpm
  • postfix-debuginfo-2.3.3-7.el5.s390x.rpm
  • postfix-2.3.3-7.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • postfix-2.3.3-7.el5.ia64.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information