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>> SpamAssassin Message Header Remote Denial of Service Issue

Title : SpamAssassin Message Header Remote Denial of Service Issue
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-0805
CVE ID : CVE-2005-1266
CWE ID : VUPEN VNS Only
CVSS V2 : VUPEN VNS Only
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-06-17


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A vulnerability was identified in SpamAssassin, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw occurs when processing certain long message headers, which could be exploited via messages containing specially crafted headers that will cause spam checking to take a long time.

Affected Products

Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.1
Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.2
Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.3

Solution

Upgrade to Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.4 :
http://spamassassin.apache.org/index.html

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0805
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/changes304

Credits

Vulnerability reported by the vendor

ChangeLog

2005-06-17 : Initial release

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