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SUSE-SA:2005:033: spamassassin

Vulnerability Assessment Summary Check for the version of the spamassassin package Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2005:033 (spamassassin). The anti spam tool SpamAssassin was prone to a denial-of-service attack. A remote attacker could craft a MIME E-Mail message that would waste a lot of CPU cycles parsing the Content-Type header. This is tracked by the Mitre CVE ID CVE-2005-1266. Only SUSE Linux 9.2 and 9.3 are affected, since they include the 3.x version of spamassassin. Older versions are not affected. Solution : http://www.suse.de/security/advisories/2005_33_spamassassin.html Network Security Threat Level: Medium Networks Security ID: Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2005 Tenable Network Security

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