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 Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2002 4:07 pm Post subject: [gentoo-announce] GLSA: amavis |
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT
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PACKAGE :amavis
SUMMARY :possible dos
DATE :2002-09-05 10:30 UTC
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OVERVIEW
possible DoS attack by a special crafted TAR archive file
DETAIL
The AMaViS shell script version (AMaViS 0.1.x / 0.2.x) uses securetar.
securetar removes the pathes of files in a tar archive and makes each
file name a unique name. Links, character devices, block devices and name=
d
pipes will be removed from the archive.
A special-crafted TAR file may hung securetar forever, using up to
100% CPU time.
More information can be found at:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Damavis-announce&m=3D103121272122242&w=3D=
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SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-mail/amavis-0.2.1-r2 and earlier update their systems
as follows:
emerge rsync
emerge amavis
emerge clean
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