Bug 228586 - CVE-2007-0451 Spamassassin DoS
Summary: CVE-2007-0451 Spamassassin DoS
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: spamassassin
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Warren Togami
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-02-13 21:29 UTC by Mark J. Cox
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: RHSA-2007-0074
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-02-21 18:44:52 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2007:0074 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: spamassassin security update 2007-02-21 18:44:50 UTC

Description Mark J. Cox 2007-02-13 21:29:22 UTC 
There is a DoS in apparantly all versions of spamassassin prior to
3.1.8 (which is not released yet).  A carefully crafted message can 
cause SpamAssassin to consume significant resources which could lead
to a DoS if an attacker sends many such messages:

http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5318

Also affects RHEL4.

Patch here:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=507102
Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2007-02-14 03:58:22 UTC 
I presume this flaw affects RHEL3 as well.  Is the plan to upgrade to
spamassassin 3.1.8, or to backport this fix?
Comment 5 Warren Togami 2007-02-14 22:04:48 UTC 
It appears we lucked out.  RHEL3 is not effected in such a dangerous way.  Just
a slight delay, and no huge CPU or memory usage.  I suspect we need not touch it
for this CVE.  Will do further verification.

Upstream is releasing 3.1.8 today, and I am pushing it to Fedora now.
Comment 7 Josh Bressers 2007-02-21 17:38:52 UTC 
Lifting Embargo
Comment 8 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-02-21 18:44:52 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0074.html
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