-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200302-01 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : Mail-SpamAssasin SUMMARY : arbitrary code execution DATE : 2003-02-02 13:25 UTC EXPLOIT : remote - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- - From advisory: "Attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code by sending a specially crafted e-mail to a system using SpamAssassin's spamc program in BSMTP mode (-B option). Versions from 2.40 to 2.43 are affected." Read the full advisory at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=104342896818777&w=2 SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running dev-perl/Mail-SpamAssasin to Mail-SpamAssasin-2.44 as follows: emerge sync emerge -u Mail-SpamAssasin emerge clean - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+PRxAfT7nyhUpoZMRAjBlAKCIBHUPx/LE/JJg130OosBtzfXNyACfY+/n hQ1myVlS8MPcIc1BGzoLZzM= =y8WM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
