GLSA: Mail-SpamAssasin

[Daniel Ahlberg <aliz () gentoo org>]

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200302-01
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PACKAGE : Mail-SpamAssasin
SUMMARY : arbitrary code execution
DATE    : 2003-02-02 13:25 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote

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- From advisory: 

"Attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code by sending a specially 
crafted e-mail to a system using SpamAssassin's spamc program in BSMTP 
mode (-B option). Versions from 2.40 to 2.43 are affected."
 
Read the full advisory at 
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=104342896818777&w=2
 
SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
dev-perl/Mail-SpamAssasin to Mail-SpamAssasin-2.44 as follows:

emerge sync
emerge -u Mail-SpamAssasin
emerge clean

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aliz () gentoo org - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz
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