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SpamAssassin Message Header Processing Denial of Service
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA15704
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Release Date:
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2005-06-17
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | SpamAssassin 3.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2005-1266 (Secunia mirror)
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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 error when processing certain malformed, overly long message headers and can be exploited to cause the spam checking to take a very long time by sending a specially crafted message to a vulnerable server.
The vulnerability has been reported in versions 3.0.1 through 3.0.3.
Solution:
Update to version 3.0.4.
http://spamassassin.apache.org/
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.
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3 Related Secunia Security Advisories
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1. SpamAssassin Long URI Denial of Service
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2. SpamAssassin "spamd" Shell Command Injection Vulnerability
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3. SpamAssassin Long Message Header Denial of Service
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