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Gentoo: GLSA-200506-17 Moderate: SpamAssassin DoS Risk Resolution

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Calendar Grey June 21, 2005
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A security flaw related to Denial of Service has been identified in both SpamAssassin and Vipul's Razor that impacts Gentoo environments. Timely upgrades are crucial.
SpamAssassin and Vipul's Razor are vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack when handling certain malformed messages.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200506-17 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: SpamAssassin 3, Vipul's Razor: Denial of Service vulnerability Date: June 21, 2005 Bugs: #94722, #95492 ID: 200506-17

Synopsis ======= SpamAssassin and Vipul's Razor are vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack when handling certain malformed messages.
Background ========= 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.
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