metadata/glsa/glsa-200506-17.xml

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<glsa id="200506-17">
  <title>SpamAssassin 3, Vipul's Razor: Denial of Service vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    SpamAssassin and Vipul's Razor are vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack
    when handling certain malformed messages.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">SpamAssassin, Vipul's Razor</product>
  <announced>June 21, 2005</announced>
  <revised>May 22, 2006: 03</revised>
  <bug>94722</bug>
  <bug>95492</bug>
  <bug>96776</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="mail-filter/spamassassin" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.0.4</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="lt">3.0.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.0.4</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="mail-filter/razor" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.74</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.74</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    SpamAssassin is an extensible email filter which is used to identify
    junk email. Vipul's Razor is a client for a distributed, collaborative
    spam detection and filtering network.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    SpamAssassin and Vipul's Razor contain a Denial of Service
    vulnerability when handling special misformatted long message headers.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    By sending a specially crafted message an attacker could cause a Denial
    of Service attack against the SpamAssassin/Vipul's Razor server.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All SpamAssassin users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=mail-filter/spamassassin-3.0.4&quot;</code>
    <p>
    All Vipul's Razor users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=mail-filter/razor-2.74&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1266">CAN-2005-1266</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-2024">CVE-2005-2024</uri>
    <uri link="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/spamassassin-announce/200506.mbox/%3c17072.35054.586017.822288@proton.pathname.com%3e">SpamAssassin Announcement</uri>
    <uri link="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7520323&amp;forum_id=4259">Vipul's Razor Announcement</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Wed, 08 Jun 2005 05:05:05 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 20 Jun 2005 04:49:42 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>