From mstone@klecker.debian.org Thu Jul 7 21:16:57 2005 From: Michael Stone Resent-From: list@murphy.debian.org (SmartList) To: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 03:14:40 +0200 Reply-To: full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk Subject: [Full-disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 736-2] New spamassassin packages fix potential DOS -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA 736-2 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Michael Stone July 07, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : spamassassin Vulnerability : mail header parsing error Problem type : remote DOS Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CAN-2005-1266 Debian Bug : 314447 A vulnerability was recently found in the way that SpamAssassin parses certain email headers. This vulnerability could cause SpamAssassin to consume a large number of CPU cycles when processing messages containing these headers, leading to a potential denial of service (DOS) attack. The version of SpamAssassin in the old stable distribution (woody) is not vulnerable. For the stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.3-2. Note that packages are not yet ready for certain architectures; these will be released as they become available. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.4-1. The only change since DSA 736-1 is the addition of packages for certain architectures that were not available at the time of the original advisory. We recommend that you upgrade your sarge or sid spamassassin package. Upgrade instructions - -------------------- wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian 3.1 (sarge) - ------------------ sarge was released for alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Packages were released for all but arm and hppa in DSA 736-1. arm architecture (ARM) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/spamassassin/spamc_3.0.3-2_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 58362 cf463ef4d601f3f6502f891eef928451 hppa architecture (HP PA RISC) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/spamassassin/spamc_3.0.3-2_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 60236 4f6c26a0c8ac1249aa38c17040b18d97 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBQs3SRw0hVr09l8FJAQInzAP/WDnmR034DGlDy+mFP7Cjz33tSIkGsIGs 7zxjwjd3JOw3BIcK1ULg+fb3MpceSFadn3gg+A4lKPTyy4buhWNo62NMXQ0ITpph 0FmBVcxtylbtUpzVQ1SZ7GVL1gMFkwZdTTO9XTUWFDAxCtXxUIWPW64reWMp1U5n nD9OvROjvuU= =nzlJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/