SpamAssassin: Denial of Service vulnerability — GLSA 200408-06

SpamAssassin is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack when handling certain malformed messages.

Package	mail-filter/spamassassin on all architectures
Affected versions	<= 2.63-r1
Unaffected versions	>= 2.64

SpamAssassin is an extensible email filter which is used to identify spam.

SpamAssassin contains an unspecified Denial of Service vulnerability.

By sending a specially crafted message an attacker could cause a Denial of Service attack against the SpamAssassin service.

There is no known workaround at this time. All users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest available version of SpamAssassin.

All SpamAssassin users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge sync
 
 # emerge -pv ">=mail-filter/spamassassin-2.64"
 # emerge ">=mail-filter/spamassassin-2.64"

Release date
August 09, 2004

Latest revision
May 22, 2006: 02

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

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