Gentoo: 200302-01 Critical: Mail-SpamAssassin Remote Code Execution Risk
gentoo
February 2, 2003
An attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code by sending a specially crafted e-mail to a system using SpamAssassin's spamc program in BSMTP mode.
Summary
- -------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200302-01 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 2003-02-02 13:25 UTC
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From advisory:
"Attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code by sending a specially crafted e-mail to a system using SpamAssassin's spamc program in BSMTP mode (-B option). Versions from 2.40 to 2.43 are affected."
Read the full advisory at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=104342896818777&w=2
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running dev-perl/Mail-SpamAssasin to Mail-SpamAssasin-2.44 as follows:
emerge sync emerge -u Mail-SpamAssasin emerge clean
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PACKAGE : Mail-SpamAssasin
SUMMARY : arbitrary code execution
EXPLOIT : remote
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