Security update for SPAMAssassin

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(Last modified: 13APR2007)

solutions Security update for SPAMAssassin SuSE Linux Maintenance Web (5fc01884a252c732615a1e7f9ccb7054)

Applies to

Package: spamassassin
perl-spamassassin
Product(s): SUSE SLED 10 for x86
SUSE SLED 10 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T
SUSE SLES 10 for x86
SUSE SLES 10 for IPF
SUSE SLES 10 for IBM POWER
SUSE SLES 10 for IBM zSeries 64bit
SUSE SLES 10 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T

Release: 20070413
Obsoletes: none

Indications

Install this update.

Contraindications

None.

Problem description

This upgrade brings SPAMAssassin to version 3.1.8 with the following changes:

fix for CVE-2007-0451: possible DoS due to incredibly long URIs found in the message content.
disable perl module usage in update channels unless --allowplugins is specified
files with names starting/ending in whitespace weren't usable
remove Text::Wrap related code due to upstream issues
update spamassassin and sa-learn to better deal with STDIN
improvements and bug fixes related to DomainKeys and DKIM support
several updates for Received header parsing
several documentation updates and random taint-variable related issues

This update also adds some missing dependencies.

Solution

Please install the updates provided at the location noted below.

Installation notes

This update is provided as an RPM package that can easily be installed onto a running system by using this command:


rpm -Fvh spamassassin.rpm perl-spamassassin.rpm

links to download packages

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Download the source code of the patches for maintained products.

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