Gentoo: GLSA-200703-02: SpamAssassin: Long URI Denial of Service
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200703-02
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: SpamAssassin: Long URI Denial of Service
Date: March 02, 2007
Bugs: #166969
ID: 200703-02
Synopsis
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SpamAssassin is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack.
Background
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SpamAssassin is an extensible email filter used to identify junk email.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 mail-filter/spamassassin < 3.1.8 >= 3.1.8
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SpamAssassin does not correctly handle very long URIs when scanning
emails.
Impact
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An attacker could cause SpamAssassin to consume large amounts of CPU
and memory resources by sending one or more emails containing very long
URIs.
Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
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All SpamAssassin users should upgrade to the latest version.
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-filter/spamassassin-3.1.8"
References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2007-0451
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0451
Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200703-02
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@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org/.
License
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Copyright 2007 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.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
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