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             AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution

                ESB-2004.0507 -- SpamAssassin Announcement
                       SpamAssassin 2.64 is released
                              12 August 2004

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:                SpamAssassin
Operating System:       Linux variants
                        UNIX variants
                        Mac OS X
Impact:                 Denial of Service
Access:                 Remote/Unauthenticated

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(**IMPORTANT**: This is not an ASF release; this is a maintainance
release of the older 2.6x stable branch, which is NOT released under
an Apache license.)

SpamAssassin is a mail filter which uses advanced statistical
and heuristic tests to identify spam (also known as unsolicited
commercial/bulk email).

Downloading
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Pick it up from:

  http://old.SpamAssassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.64.tar.gz
  http://old.SpamAssassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.64.tar.bz2
  http://old.SpamAssassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.64.zip

md5sum of archive files:
a82a9dab95462d102e253edb99091fdd  Mail-SpamAssassin-2.64.tar.gz
cd482160ddbe371bbf4fb58b715ebbdf  Mail-SpamAssassin-2.64.tar.bz2
82a8f47ad87774b5a94805ed9bc6753b  Mail-SpamAssassin-2.64.zip
sha1sum of archive files:
7d5776a7c462c849bc48f12a48ed82dc929ac06f  Mail-SpamAssassin-2.64.tar.gz
ea4925c6967249a581c4966d1cefd1a3162eb639  Mail-SpamAssassin-2.64.tar.bz2
5922db581c6ef8026455ecce055f14a25b499a3b  Mail-SpamAssassin-2.64.zip

Or on CPAN shortly, once the mirrors update.

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 keyserver, as well as
http://www.spamassassin.org/released/GPG-SIGNING-KEY

The key information is:

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

Summary of major changes since 2.63
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  - Security fix prevents a denial of service attack open to certain
    malformed messages; this DoS affects all SpamAssassin 2.5x
    and 2.6x versions to date.
  - Backported several very reliable rules from the SpamAssassin 3.0.0
    codebase.

NOTE: If you are testing SpamAssassin 3.0.0, you need to read the README
file before using this distribution!

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