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Scientific Linux 5.x/4.x: Moderate SpamAssassin Security Update

Calendar Jun 13, 2007 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory moderate symlink issue spamassassin scientific linux
Moderate: spamassassin security update 
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:32:10 -0500
Reply-To: Connie Sieh 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Connie Sieh 
Subject: Security ERRATA for spamassassin on SL5.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64 (fwd)
Comments: To: scientific 

Synopsis: Moderate: spamassassin security update
Issue date: 2007-06-13
CVE Names: CVE-2007-2873

Description:

Martin Krafft discovered a symlink issue in SpamAssassin that affects
certain non-default configurations. A local user could use this flaw to
create or overwrite files writable by the spamd process (CVE-2007-2873).

SL 4.x:

 SRPMS:
 	spamassassin-3.1.9-1.el4.src.rpm
 i386:
 	spamassassin-3.1.9-1.el4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
 	spamassassin-3.1.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x:

 SRPMS:
 	spamassassin-3.1.9-1.el5.src.rpm
 i386:
 	spamassassin-3.1.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
 	spamassassin-3.1.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm

--Connie Sieh
--Troy Dawson