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CVSSv2

CVE-2005-1266

Published: 15/06/2005 Updated: 13/02/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.1, 3.0.2, and 3.0.3 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and slowdown) via a message with a long Content-Type header without any boundaries.

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Vendor Advisories

Synopsis spamassassin security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An updated spamassassin package that fixes a denial of service bug whenparsing malformed messages is now availableThis update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team ...
A vulnerability was recently found in the way that SpamAssassin parses certain email headers This vulnerability could cause SpamAssassin to consume a large number of CPU cycles when processing messages containing these headers, leading to a potential denial of service (DOS) attack The version of SpamAssassin in the old stable distribution (woody ...