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CVE-2005-3351

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-11-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

SpamAssassin 3.0.4 allows attackers to bypass spam detection via an e-mail with a large number of recipients ("To" addresses), which triggers a bus error in Perl.

Affected products

• Apache Software Foundation Apache SpamAssassin: 3.0.4

References

• http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4570
• http://lwn.net/Alerts/159300/
• http://osvdb.org/11581
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17386/
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17518/
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17626/
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17666/
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17877
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19158
• http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/spamassassin/devel/62649
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:221
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_27_sr.html

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