Re: [exim] Problem since upgrading spamassassin

John Burnham wrote:
>> Yesterday, i upgraded SpamAssassin from "3.0.3-2sarge1" to
>> "3.1.7-1~bpo.1" on a Debian Sarge box, using the following repository:
>>
> The routers and transports seem fine. However, a quick check through a FreeBSD
> Spamassassin change log does reveal that a bug was introduced that gave problems
> with Exim, Spamassassin and BSMTP:
> http://pkgsrc.se/mail/spamassassin
> (bug 4966 in their numbering scheme)
>
> I'd check with the Debian package maintainers that this bug has been fixed in
> the release they've put out.
> J
>
>
That release is also vulnerable to CVE-2007-0451 [1] (fixed upstream in
3.1.8) so you may want to wait for backports.org to produce an updated
backport before using it.

[1] http://spamassassin.apache.org/advisories/cve-2007-0451.txt

Cheers,
Stu.