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SpamAssassin Long URI Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA24197
Release Date: 2007-02-16
Popularity: 8,810 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:SpamAssassin 3.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-0451


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in SpamAssassin, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error and can be exploited to cause a DoS via overly long URIs in the message content.

Solution:
Update to version 3.1.8.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Original Advisory:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spama...hes/3.1/build/announcements/3.1.8.txt


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