GLSA 200506-17: SpamAssassin 3, Vipul's Razor: Denial of Service

A SpamAssassin 3 Razor security update is available for Gentoo Linux

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

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

Background
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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.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 mail-filter/spamassassin lt; 3.0.4 gt;= 3.0.4
lt; 3.0.1
2 mail-filter/razor lt; 2.71 gt;= 2.71
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2 affected packages on all of their supported architectures.
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Description
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SpamAssassin and Vipul's Razor contain a Denial of Service vulnerability when handling special misformatted long message headers.

Impact
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By sending a specially crafted message an attacker could cause a Denial of Service attack against the SpamAssassin/Vipul's Razor server.

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 "gt;=mail-filter/spamassassin-3.0.4"

All Vipul's Razor users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "gt;=mail-filter/razor-2.71"

References
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[ 1 ] CAN-2005-1266
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1266
[ 2 ] SpamAssassin Announcement
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/spamassassin-announce/200506.mbox/%3c17072.35054.586017.822288@proton.pathname.com%3e
[ 3 ] Vipul's Razor Announcement
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7520323forum_id=4259

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200506-17.xml

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 http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2005 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.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0