DSA-1090-1 spamassassin -- programming error

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1090-1 spamassassin -- programming error

Date Reported:

06 Jun 2006

Affected Packages:

spamassassin

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-2447.

More information:

A vulnerability has been discovered in SpamAssassin, a Perl-based spam filter using text analysis, that can allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This problem only affects systems where spamd is reachable via the internet and used with vpopmail virtual users, via the "-v" / "--vpopmail" switch, and with the "-P" / "--paranoid" switch which is not the default setting on Debian.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.3-2sarge1.

For the volatile archive for the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.0a-0volatile3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your spamd package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/spamassassin/spamassassin_3.0.3-2sarge1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/spamassassin/spamassassin_3.0.3-2sarge1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/spamassassin/spamassassin_3.0.3.orig.tar.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/spamassassin/spamassassin_3.0.3-2sarge1_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/spamassassin/spamc_3.0.3-2sarge1_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/spamassassin/spamc_3.0.3-2sarge1_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/spamassassin/spamc_3.0.3-2sarge1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/spamassassin/spamc_3.0.3-2sarge1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/spamassassin/spamc_3.0.3-2sarge1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/spamassassin/spamc_3.0.3-2sarge1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/spamassassin/spamc_3.0.3-2sarge1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/spamassassin/spamc_3.0.3-2sarge1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/spamassassin/spamc_3.0.3-2sarge1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/spamassassin/spamc_3.0.3-2sarge1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/spamassassin/spamc_3.0.3-2sarge1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/spamassassin/spamc_3.0.3-2sarge1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.