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Severity: Normal
Title: SpamAssassin 3, Vipul's Razor: Denial of Service
vulnerability
Date: June 21, 2005
Updated: July 04, 2005
Bugs: #94722, #95492, #96776
ID: 200506-17:02
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Update
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Sascha Lucas discovered that with certain malformed headers it was still
possible to crash Vipul's Razor.
The updated sections appear below.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 mail-filter/spamassassin < 3.0.4 >= 3.0.4
< 3.0.1
2 mail-filter/razor < 2.74 >= 2.74
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2 affected packages on all of their supported architectures.
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Resolution
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All SpamAssassin users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-filter/spamassassin-3.0.4"
All Vipul's Razor users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-filter/razor-2.74"
Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200506-17.xml
Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@xxxxxxxxxx or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.
License
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).
The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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