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Subject: Postfix Memory Exhaustion Attack
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Wieste Venema has posted information about Postfix SMTP server memory
exhaustion attack on BUGTRAQ. You may read it at:

http://www.securityfocus.org/archive/1/240354

The patch is included. 

FreeBSD port is probably vulnerable (can someone confirm this?). 




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