GLSA: Mail-SpamAssasin

From: Daniel Ahlberg (alizat_private)
Date: Sun Feb 02 2003 - 05:25:29 PST

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    GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200302-01
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    PACKAGE : Mail-SpamAssasin
    SUMMARY : arbitrary code execution
    DATE    : 2003-02-02 13:25 UTC
    EXPLOIT : remote
    
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    - From advisory: 
    
    "Attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code by sending a specially 
    crafted e-mail to a system using SpamAssassin's spamc program in BSMTP 
    mode (-B option). Versions from 2.40 to 2.43 are affected."
     
    Read the full advisory at 
    http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=104342896818777&w=2
     
    SOLUTION
    
    It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
    dev-perl/Mail-SpamAssasin to Mail-SpamAssasin-2.44 as follows:
    
    emerge sync
    emerge -u Mail-SpamAssasin
    emerge clean
    
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    alizat_private - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz
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