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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+
+<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>March 02, 2007</announced>
+ <revised>March 02, 2007: 01</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 &quot;&gt;=mail-filter/spamassassin-3.1.8&quot;</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0451">CVE-2007-0451</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:43:02 +0000">
+ vorlon
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:46:27 +0000">
+ vorlon
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:49:30 +0000">
+ DerCorny
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>