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OpenBSD Update

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Classification
These posts contain security alerts, including digital loopholes, electronic attacks, technical updates, and they are classified base on the level of severity.

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Warning Date

Severity Level

Warning Number

Target Sector

4 February, 2020

● Critical

2020-879

All

Description:

OpenBSD has released a security update to address a vulnerability in the following product:

  • OpenSMTPD

Threats:

Attacker could exploit this vulnerability by doing the following:

  • Execute arbitrary code – remotely
  • Escalation of privilege

Best practice and Recommendations:

The CERT team encourages users to review OpenBSD security advisory and apply the necessary updates:

https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/6.6/common/019_smtpd_exec.patch.sig

Last updated at 4 February, 2020

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