Package name spamassassin
Date June 28th, 2005
Advisory ID MDKSA-2005:106
Affected versions 10.1, 10.2

Problem Description

A Denial of Service bug was discovered in SpamAssassin. An attacker
could construct a particular message that would cause SpamAssassin to
consume CPU resources. If a large number of these messages were sent,
it could lead to a DoS. SpamAssassin 3.0.4 was released to correct
this vulnerability, as well as other minor bug fixes, and is provided
with this update.

For full details on the changes from previous versions of SpamAssassin
to this current version, please refer to the online documentation at
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/NextRelease.

Updated Packages

Mandrakelinux 10.1

 70c3144fdfc90df050e058e788724af2  10.1/RPMS/perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.4-0.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
a812132eaa7d2f5037b9d813a0ddb2d4  10.1/RPMS/spamassassin-3.0.4-0.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
34ac7694b8a0d4757dc1e9514cb89abe  10.1/RPMS/spamassassin-spamc-3.0.4-0.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
4771bb089113c7fcfe8fc76705c9a1d6  10.1/RPMS/spamassassin-spamd-3.0.4-0.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
3dc5eb25ed5fbaf97126987fa6fef2a0  10.1/RPMS/spamassassin-tools-3.0.4-0.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
5f5e0a9d95abf8a8c914b453a200622f  10.1/SRPMS/spamassassin-3.0.4-0.1.101mdk.src.rpm

Mandrakelinux 10.1/X86_64

 907ae240ba0c1383ffac92b6e44bf9b8  x86_64/10.1/RPMS/perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.4-0.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
e4c381dce8549f1dcc0e193492344633  x86_64/10.1/RPMS/spamassassin-3.0.4-0.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
e519886d73606721c7d039a781e48bf8  x86_64/10.1/RPMS/spamassassin-spamc-3.0.4-0.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
cc9047d8bfc0f7dca47a8d20a4acdaba  x86_64/10.1/RPMS/spamassassin-spamd-3.0.4-0.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
30a1796d9714c2f97fe18543611861ee  x86_64/10.1/RPMS/spamassassin-tools-3.0.4-0.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
5f5e0a9d95abf8a8c914b453a200622f  x86_64/10.1/SRPMS/spamassassin-3.0.4-0.1.101mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux LE2005

 968684a2cb5837f7b5c807e7cb84ac27  10.2/RPMS/perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.4-0.1.102mdk.i586.rpm
b674284aeb77b560fcabea2e5cb3ea76  10.2/RPMS/spamassassin-3.0.4-0.1.102mdk.i586.rpm
5fe7625fbea7970929efb0d34910d6e8  10.2/RPMS/spamassassin-spamc-3.0.4-0.1.102mdk.i586.rpm
ca728cf0e5e798758c0e3c1a89e52996  10.2/RPMS/spamassassin-spamd-3.0.4-0.1.102mdk.i586.rpm
94b9919c9afba79815ddf391f18ae9e7  10.2/RPMS/spamassassin-tools-3.0.4-0.1.102mdk.i586.rpm
c0f1a6eda5f0e91c5630e81f2ec4a04c  10.2/SRPMS/spamassassin-3.0.4-0.1.102mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux LE2005/X86_64

 e58fbab242a1dbfc66b9a038c9ad31ef  x86_64/10.2/RPMS/perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.4-0.1.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
f52acfcca9d854c597462ef96cd0d60e  x86_64/10.2/RPMS/spamassassin-3.0.4-0.1.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
434c6842488b18e288ed44e77ae83e9a  x86_64/10.2/RPMS/spamassassin-spamc-3.0.4-0.1.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
3e6d8eecb483210d5a7504da27d7c109  x86_64/10.2/RPMS/spamassassin-spamd-3.0.4-0.1.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
14af3895888adfcffd1ea48feeee38b8  x86_64/10.2/RPMS/spamassassin-tools-3.0.4-0.1.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
c0f1a6eda5f0e91c5630e81f2ec4a04c  x86_64/10.2/SRPMS/spamassassin-3.0.4-0.1.102mdk.src.rpm

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1266

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