GLSA: amavis

From: Daniel Ahlberg (alizat_private)
Date: Thu Sep 05 2002 - 06:03:57 PDT

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    GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT
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    PACKAGE        :amavis
    SUMMARY        :possible dos
    DATE           :2002-09-05 10:30 UTC
    
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    OVERVIEW
    
    possible DoS attack by a special crafted TAR archive file
    
    DETAIL
    
    The AMaViS shell script version (AMaViS 0.1.x / 0.2.x) uses securetar.
    securetar removes the pathes of files in a tar archive and makes each
    file name a unique name. Links, character devices, block devices and named
    pipes will be removed from the archive.
    A special-crafted TAR file may hung securetar forever, using up to
    100% CPU time.
    
    More information can be found at:
    
    http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=amavis-announce&m=103121272122242&w=2
    
    SOLUTION
    
    It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
    net-mail/amavis-0.2.1-r2 and earlier update their systems
    as follows:
    
    emerge rsync
    emerge amavis
    emerge clean
    
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