Technical Description

Redhat has released a security patch to correct a vulnerability identified in SpamAssassin. This flaw may be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2005-0805

Affected Products

Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)

Solution

Use Red Hat Network to download and update your packages :
http://rhn.redhat.com/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0867
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-498.html

ChangeLog

2005-06-23 : Initial release

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