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spamassassin: arbitrary command execution

Package(s):spamassassin CVE #(s):CVE-2006-2447
Created:June 6, 2006 Updated:June 15, 2006
Description: A vulnerability has been discovered in SpamAssassin, a Perl-based spam filter using text analysis, that can allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This problem only affects systems where spamd is reachable via the internet and used with vpopmail virtual users, via the "-v" / "--vpopmail" switch, and with the "-P" / "--paranoid" switch.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:103 2006-06-14
Gentoo 200606-09 2006-06-11
rPath rPSA-2006-0096-1 2006-06-07
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0543-01 2006-06-06
Fedora FEDORA-2006-598 2006-06-06
Fedora FEDORA-2006-658 2006-06-06
Debian DSA-1090-1 2006-06-06
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