FW: ANNOUNCE: Apache SpamAssassin 3.2.1 available

[Randal, Phil]

There are a few problems reported over on the spamassassin-users mailing
list, so proceed with caution.

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK

-----Original Message-----
From: jm at jmason.org [mailto:jm at jmason.org] 
Sent: 11 June 2007 21:14
To: users at spamassassin.apache.org; dev at spamassassin.apache.org;
announce at spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Apache SpamAssassin 3.2.1 available

Apache SpamAssassin 3.2.1 is now available!  This is a maintenance and
security release of the 3.2.x branch.  It is highly recommended that
people upgrade to this version from 3.2.0.

Downloads are available from:
  http://spamassassin.apache.org/downloads.cgi?update=200706111806

The release file will also be available via CPAN in the near future.

  md5sum of archive files:
  7b2fdbcdca5e9a181d4bb1b17663c138  Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.1.tar.bz2
  a7d51294c565999da01f212e5ad2a031  Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.1.tar.gz
  e058ed0dfe82ee62f617c12cc02e538b  Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.1.zip

  sha1sum of archive files:
  3095b38d90d0362c4e47e117fb612778a2ac362b
Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.1.tar.bz2
  fbb5f538238e188f985c8e6672dad531fa035eea
Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.1.tar.gz
  d6566975544cd706052d310481d7a100ffce14d1  Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.1.zip

The release files also have a .asc accompanying them.  The file serves
as an external GPG signature for the given release file.  The signing
key is available via the wwwkeys.pgp.net key server, as well as
http://spamassassin.apache.org/released/GPG-SIGNING-KEY

The key information is:

pub 1024D/265FA05B 2003-06-09 SpamAssassin Signing Key
<release at spamassassin.org>
    Key fingerprint = 26C9 00A4 6DD4 0CD5 AD24  F6D7 DEE0 1987 265F A05B


3.2.1 is a major bug-fix release, including a potential local DoS.  The
major highlights are:

- bug 5480: fix for CVE-2007-2873: a local user symlink-attack DoS
  vulnerability. It only affects systems where spamd is run as root, is
used
  with vpopmail or virtual users via the "-v"/"--vpopmail" OR
  "--virtual-config-dir" switch, AND with the "-x"/"--no-user-config AND
  WITHOUT the "-u"/"--username" switch AND with the "-l"/"--allow-tell"
switch.
  This is not default on any distro package, and is not a common
configuration.
  More details of the vulnerability can be read at
  <http://spamassassin.apache.org/advisories/cve-2007-2873.txt>.

- bug 5488: zero some rules causing false positives: FH_HOST_EQ_D_D_D_DB
and
  FH_HOST_EQ_D_D_D_D.

- bug 5257: re-raise autolearn ham threshold to 1.0; the lower value
  used in 3.2.0 was creating problems.

- bug 5422: in spamd, deleting hash entries from the SIGCHLD signal
handler is
  unsafe, causes corruption of the data structure, and results in
'prefork:
  ordered child N to accept, but they reported state '1', killing rogue'
  errors.  fix.

- bug 5102: tighten up regexp for FORGED_HOTMAIL_RCVD to avoid some FPs.

- bug 5457: spamc build and test should handle not having zlib
available.

- bug 5379: spamd could crash at startup if its preloading temporary
directory
  already exists. fix.

- bug 4616: spamc config can cause command line options to be ignored.
fix.

- bug 5485: zero score DK/DKIM_POLICY_SIGNSOME rules since they'll
always fire
  due to defaults (unless there's an explicit SIGNALL policy).

- bug 5492: VBounce rule was looking in header instead of body for
whitelisted
  relays. fix.

- bug 5487: prevent multiple "urirhssub"s using the same zone from
overwriting
  each other.

- bug 5432 - Change default in Win32 build to not build spamc.

- bug 5446: add --updatedir option to sa-compile and remove inaccurate
re2c
  required version info from pod.

- bug 5436: add omitted "ifplugin" statements to the configuration,
which would
  otherwise cause lint errors if the default plugins were disabled.

- bug 5477: prevent Rule2XSBody info message from appearing on stderr
during
  spamd startup.