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SpamAssassin execution of arbitrary code
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA7951
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Release Date:
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2003-01-27
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Popularity:
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4,214 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Unpatched
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| Software: | SpamAssassin 2.x
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Description:
SpamAssassin suffers a off-by-one bug when escaping '.' at the beginning of lines, this can be exploited to overwrite the stack frame address.
This is exploitable on some systems. This can only be performed on systems running with the -B option.
This has been confirmed in 2.40 to 2.43
Solution:
Do not use the -B option.
It is a known vulnerability which is planned to be fixed in the upcomming 2.5 release.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Timo Sirainen
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