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TITLE:
SpamAssassin Long URI Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24197

VERIFY ADVISORY:
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CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
SpamAssassin 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/4506/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in SpamAssassin, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error and can be
exploited to cause a DoS via overly long URIs in the message content.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.1.8.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/branches/3.1/build/announcements/3.1.8.txt

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