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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.51177
Category:Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2004:451
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2004:451.

SpamAssassin provides a way to reduce unsolicited commercial email (SPAM)
from incoming email.

A denial of service bug has been found in SpamAssassin versions below 2.64.
A malicious attacker could construct a message in such a way that would
cause spamassassin to stop responding, potentially preventing the delivery
or filtering of email. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
(cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2004-0796 to this issue.

Users of SpamAssassin should update to these updated packages which contain
a backported patch and is not vulnerable to this issue.

Solution:
Please note that this update is available via
Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red
Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-451.html

Risk factor : Medium

CVSS Score:
5.0

Cross-Ref: BugTraq ID: 10957
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2004-0796
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10957
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2268
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200408-06.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:084
http://marc.info/?l=spamassassin-announce&m=109168121628767&w=2
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10413
XForce ISS Database: spamassassin-dos(16938)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16938
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