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<glsa id="200703-02">
  <title>SpamAssassin: Long URI Denial of service</title>
  <synopsis>
    SpamAssassin is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">spamassassin</product>
  <announced>2007-03-02</announced>
  <revised count="01">2007-03-02</revised>
  <bug>166969</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="mail-filter/spamassassin" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.1.8</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.1.8</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    SpamAssassin is an extensible email filter used to identify junk email.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    SpamAssassin does not correctly handle very long URIs when scanning
    emails.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    An attacker could cause SpamAssassin to consume large amounts of CPU
    and memory resources by sending one or more emails containing very long
    URIs.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All SpamAssassin users should upgrade to the latest version.
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=mail-filter/spamassassin-3.1.8"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0451">CVE-2007-0451</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-02-25T19:43:02Z">
    vorlon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-02-25T19:46:27Z">
    vorlon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-02-26T18:49:30Z">
    DerCorny
  </metadata>
</glsa>
