Enhancement Advisory spamassassin enhancement and bug fix update

Advisory: RHEA-2008:0738-2
Type: Product Enhancement Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2008-07-24
Last updated on: 2008-07-24
Affected Products: Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)
OVAL: N/A

Details

Updated spamassassin packages that update SpamAssassin from 3.1.9 to
3.2.4, adding several enhancements and fixing a number of bugs, are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

SpamAssassin provides a way to reduce unsolicited commercial email (spam)
from incoming email.

This updated package upgrades spam assassin to the 3.2.x branch, which adds
several enhancements, including:

* the active SpamAssassin ruleset is now compiled into a fast
parallel-matching deterministic finite automaton (DFA) that runs as native
object code.

* the 127.* network range is now always considered trusted and internal,
regardless of configuration.

* when using the same ruleset, the 3.2.x core code uses less RAM than the
3.1.x release.

The 3.2.4 release of the 3.2 branch is a major bug fix release, correcting
numerous bugs, including:

* the 'ALL' header was including spurious extra spaces between header names
and values. It no longer does this.

* 'score set for a non-existent rule' is now a debug message instead of a
lint warning.

* sa-compile failed to correctly deal with escaped backslashes.

Users of spamassassin are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
adds these enhancements and resolves these issues.


Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Updated packages

Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)

SRPMS:
spamassassin-3.2.4-1.el4.1.src.rpm     cc1227a4851d36cc220ee76f89765b07
 
IA-32:
spamassassin-3.2.4-1.el4.1.i386.rpm     5ea2501fcf1652e68fd338b7b22b5c3c
 
x86_64:
spamassassin-3.2.4-1.el4.1.x86_64.rpm     f21a0691b616f992a609e4b2cc24db27
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
spamassassin-3.2.4-1.el4.1.src.rpm     cc1227a4851d36cc220ee76f89765b07
 
IA-32:
spamassassin-3.2.4-1.el4.1.i386.rpm     5ea2501fcf1652e68fd338b7b22b5c3c
 
IA-64:
spamassassin-3.2.4-1.el4.1.ia64.rpm     c72b4df08a9b88ea90cd3e9d13a734c2
 
PPC:
spamassassin-3.2.4-1.el4.1.ppc.rpm     58dcd3e2bdcb8fbaf90421a9ac827499
 
s390:
spamassassin-3.2.4-1.el4.1.s390.rpm     861ad424656d71d04b7f30b2224287f3
 
s390x:
spamassassin-3.2.4-1.el4.1.s390x.rpm     0394b13f185a1d8d006b3c5f38fe129c
 
x86_64:
spamassassin-3.2.4-1.el4.1.x86_64.rpm     f21a0691b616f992a609e4b2cc24db27
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)

SRPMS:
spamassassin-3.2.4-1.el4.1.src.rpm     cc1227a4851d36cc220ee76f89765b07
 
IA-32:
spamassassin-3.2.4-1.el4.1.i386.rpm     5ea2501fcf1652e68fd338b7b22b5c3c
 
IA-64:
spamassassin-3.2.4-1.el4.1.ia64.rpm     c72b4df08a9b88ea90cd3e9d13a734c2
 
x86_64:
spamassassin-3.2.4-1.el4.1.x86_64.rpm     f21a0691b616f992a609e4b2cc24db27
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
spamassassin-3.2.4-1.el4.1.src.rpm     cc1227a4851d36cc220ee76f89765b07
 
IA-32:
spamassassin-3.2.4-1.el4.1.i386.rpm     5ea2501fcf1652e68fd338b7b22b5c3c
 
IA-64:
spamassassin-3.2.4-1.el4.1.ia64.rpm     c72b4df08a9b88ea90cd3e9d13a734c2
 
x86_64:
spamassassin-3.2.4-1.el4.1.x86_64.rpm     f21a0691b616f992a609e4b2cc24db27
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)


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