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