| Revision Date: | 2008-03-20 | Version: | 641 |
| Title: | RHSA-2006:0129: spamassassin security update (Moderate) |
| Description: | SpamAssassin provides a way to reduce unsolicited commercial email (SPAM) from incoming email.
A denial of service bug was found in SpamAssassin. An attacker could construct a message in such a way that would cause SpamAssassin to crash. If a number of these messages are sent, it could lead to a denial of service, potentially preventing the delivery or filtering of email. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) assigned the name CVE-2005-3351 to this issue.
The following issues have also been fixed in this update:
service spamassassin restart sometimes fails Content Boundary "--" throws off message parser sa-learn: massive memory usage on large messages High memory usage with many newlines service spamassassin messages not translated Numerous other bug fixes that improve spam filter accuracy and safety
Users of SpamAssassin should upgrade to this updated package containing version 3.0.5, which is not vulnerable to these issues.
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| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Status: | | Reference(s): | CVE-2005-3351
RHSA-2006:0129
RHSA-2006:0129-01
RHSA-2006:0129-01
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| Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
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| Definition Synopsis |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed OR Package Information
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is installed
AND spamassassin is earlier than 0:3.0.5-3.el4
AND spamassassin is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
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