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 Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 6:51 pm Post subject: [gentoo-security] GLSA: Mail-SpamAssasin |
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| Daniel Ahlberg wrote: | - - --------------------------------------------------------------------
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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