GLSA 200703-02: SpamAssassin: Long URI Denial of Service
| Severity: | normal |
| Title: | SpamAssassin: Long URI Denial of Service |
| Date: | 03/02/2007 |
| Bugs: | |
| ID: | 200703-02 |
Synopsis
SpamAssassin is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack.Background
SpamAssassin is an extensible email filter used to identify junk email.
Affected packages
| Package | Vulnerable | Unaffected | Architecture(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| mail-filter/spamassassin | < 3.1.8 | >= 3.1.8 | All supported architectures |
Description
SpamAssassin does not correctly handle very long URIs when scanning emails.
Impact
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
There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
All SpamAssassin users should upgrade to the latest version.
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-filter/spamassassin-3.1.8"
References
Availability
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:
Concerns?
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License
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