Info

Last Modified

about 1 year ago

Percent Complete

95%

Disclosure

Nov 01, 2004

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Nov 01, 2004

Solution

Unknown

Description

SpamAssassin contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered when a specially formatted email is scanned which contains many domain names in the header which causes too many queries for Spamassassin's URIBL function, and will result in loss of availability for the service.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Public

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.0.2 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Apache Software Foundation

SpamAssassin

3.0.0-1

References

Security Tracker: 1012071
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=279180
http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3924
http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3930
Vendor URL: http://www.spamassassin.org/

Credit

Christian Schlittchen - corwinuni-bremen.de -

CVSSv2 Score

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