FW: ANNOUNCE: Apache SpamAssassin 3.1.9 available!

[Randal, Phil]

FYI

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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 21:16
To: users at spamassassin.apache.org; dev at spamassassin.apache.org;
announce at spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Apache SpamAssassin 3.1.9 available!

Apache SpamAssassin 3.1.9 is now available!  This is a maintenance and
security release of the 3.1.x branch.  It is highly recommended that
people upgrade to this version from 3.0.x or 3.1.x.

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:
  ad5d812b1a04228f3dc3147ebd649bb3  Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.9.tar.bz2
  c0a6dc8564e60bf50d1792e4edc18e97  Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.9.tar.gz
  a1ed25d0878d102c17a91233ee741f87  Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.9.zip

  sha1sum of archive files:
  bed85f0b7e269253e925831015f11809009080eb
Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.9.tar.bz2
  181e0ca4e0568bb51e955b8b8e4595313fb7de8b
Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.9.tar.gz
  c5f87a454ce4562558fd1af9ea71b7b858899f3e  Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.9.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


3.1.9 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 5353 - meta rule parsing should handle not equal ("!=") syntax.

- set the score for URI_TRUNCATED to 0.001.

- bug 5337: change the start order for Fedora such that spamd starts
before the
  MTA.