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Amavis Zoo Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA25315
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Release Date:
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2007-05-18
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Popularity:
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4,002 views
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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 Workaround
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| Software: | AMaViS (A Mail Virus Scanner) 0.x
amavisd-new 2.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2007-1669
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Amavis, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to Amavis potentially invoking an insecure version of zoo or unzoo. This can be exploited to cause an infinite loop resulting in high CPU utilisation.
Solution:
The vendor recommends disabling the use of zoo or unzoo, or using a patched version of zoo.
Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Jean-Sebastien Guay-Leroux.
Original Advisory:
http://www.amavis.org/security/asa-2007-2.txt
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