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An opensmtpd security update has been released for Arch Linux.



Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-202002-13
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Severity: Critical
Date : 2020-02-29
CVE-ID : CVE-2020-8794
Package : opensmtpd
Type : arbitrary command execution
Remote : Yes
Link :   https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1105

Summary
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The package opensmtpd before version 6.6.4p1-1 is vulnerable to
arbitrary command execution.

Resolution
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Upgrade to 6.6.4p1-1.

# pacman -Syu "opensmtpd>=6.6.4p1-1"

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 6.6.4p1.

Workaround
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None.

Description
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An out-of-bounds read vulnerability has been found in the client-side
code of OpenSMTPD