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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200506-17.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<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>