From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.105.134.102] (helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DkcBc-0001AL-Mf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 06:24:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j5L6MoT5015458; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 06:22:50 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5L5wGqn027324 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 05:58:16 GMT Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.235]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DkbmM-0001uW-Om for gentoo-announce@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 05:58:35 +0000 Received: from [192.168.2.2] (0x50c70c8b.adsl-fixed.tele.dk [80.199.12.139]) by pfepa.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 527EF47FEA9; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 07:58:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen To: gentoo-announce@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200506-17 ] SpamAssassin 3, Vipul's Razor: Denial of Service vulnerability Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 07:52:40 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com, full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk, security-alerts@linuxsecurity.com Organization: Gentoo Linux Security Team X-GPG-Key: http://home.coming.dk/skj.pub.gpg Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-announce@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3129856.IABrOzLO8N"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200506210752.45938.jaervosz@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: ac35dcd0-57c4-4944-8f89-478f5522489a X-Archives-Hash: 41e20ae8f6f388fbcec6a627c926d8f0 --nextPart3129856.IABrOzLO8N Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200506-17 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://security.gentoo.org/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Severity: Normal Title: SpamAssassin 3, Vipul's Razor: Denial of Service vulnerability Date: June 21, 2005 Bugs: #94722, #95492 ID: 200506-17 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Synopsis ======== SpamAssassin and Vipul's Razor are vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack when handling certain malformed messages. Background ========== 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 ================= ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 mail-filter/spamassassin < 3.0.4 >= 3.0.4 < 3.0.1 2 mail-filter/razor < 2.71 >= 2.71 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 affected packages on all of their supported architectures. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Description =========== SpamAssassin and Vipul's Razor contain a Denial of Service vulnerability when handling special misformatted long message headers. Impact ====== By sending a specially crafted message an attacker could cause a Denial of Service attack against the SpamAssassin/Vipul's Razor server. 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-3.0.4" All Vipul's Razor users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-filter/razor-2.71" References ========== [ 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=7520323&forum_id=4259 Availability ============ 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? ========= 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 ======= 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 --nextPart3129856.IABrOzLO8N Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCt6stzKC5hMHO6rkRAq+XAJ0VYTdfNvjeMgK88OWQPTCq+/iHAgCeJQ6V sYG0/tplCTmz2UN8jdFcPmM= =NtXh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3129856.IABrOzLO8N-- -- gentoo-announce@gentoo.org mailing list