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Red Hat 4: RHSA-2005:498-01 Moderate: SpamAssassin DoS Attack Mitigation

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Calendar Grey June 23, 2005
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Fedora enhances OpenSSL, fixing a critical security flaw that could allow remote code execution via exploited network connections.
An updated spamassassin package that fixes a denial of service bug when parsing malformed messages is now available. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact...

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system.

5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

147464 - spamassassin no longer allows disabling subject rewriting 151433 - spamd generate child processes which occupies all memory 159198 - CAN-2005-1266 spamassassin DoS


6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4:

SRPMS: 0cfa5b1fd18aa2f410fed837928b455c spamassassin-3.0.4-1.el4.src.rpm

i386: c5e89bce23bff4757cb542cf56826e54 spamassassin-3.0.4-1.el4.i386.rpm

ia64: 84e256c709e69590520976c43d19c900 spamassassin-3.0.4-1.el4.ia64.rpm

ppc: 3bdc20c485ee078b6a0607cdf99bff5d spamassassin-3.0.4-1.el4.ppc.rpm

s390: f85e251044675dd7fb3b5d9d1c0eb674 spamassassin-3.0.4-1.el4.s390.rpm

s390x: 09f74fbccdae19059115a670d90f5f98 spamassassin-3.0.4-1.el4.s390x.rpm

x86_64: 2c44a9c80b1629af93b4543413c0c652 spamassassin-3.0.4-1.el4.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4:

SRPMS: 0cfa5b1fd18aa2f410fed837928b455c spamassassin-3.0.4-1.el4.src.rpm

i386: c5e89bce23bff4757cb542cf56826e54 spamassassin-3.0.4-1.el4.i386.rpm

x86_64: 2c44a9c80b1629af93b4543413c0c652 spamassassin-3.0.4-1.el4.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4:

SRPMS: 0cfa5b1fd18aa2f410fed837928b455c spamassassin-3.0.4-1.el4.src.rpm

i386: c5e89bce23bff4757cb542cf56826e54 spamassassin-3.0.4-1.el4.i386.rpm

ia64: 84e256c709e69590520976c43d19c900 spamassassin-3.0.4-1.el4.ia64.rpm

x86_64: 2c44a9c80b1629af93b4543413c0c652 spamassassin-3.0.4-1.el4.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4:

SRPMS: 0cfa5b1fd18aa2f410fed837928b455c spamassassin-3.0.4-1.el4.src.rpm

i386: c5e89bce23bff4757cb542cf56826e54 spamassassin-3.0.4-1.el4.i386.rpm

ia64: 84e256c709e69590520976c43d19c900 spamassassin-3.0.4-1.el4.ia64.rpm

x86_64: 2c44a9c80b1629af93b4543413c0c652 spamassassin-3.0.4-1.el4.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key#package

Summary

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat update DoS security impact spamassassin

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CAN-2005-1266

Package List


Advisory ID: RHSA-2005:498-01
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005:498.html
Issue date: 2005-06-23
Updated on: 2005-06-23
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Topic

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat update DoS security impact spamassassin

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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