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SpamAssassin execution of arbitrary code
Secunia Advisory: SA7951
Release Date: 2003-01-27
Popularity: 5,194 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:SpamAssassin 2.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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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

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