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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2005-3351 json

SpamAssassin 3.0.4 allows attackers to bypass spam detection via an e-mail with a large number of recipients ("To" addresses), which trigge…

published 2005-11-20 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-3350

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.3%
EPSS 7.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • spamassassin Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.1.0a-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2005-3351

  • spamassassin RHEL 4 3.0.5-3.el4

red hat advisories RHSA-2006:0129

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2005-3351 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 spamassassin 3.0.5-3.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 spamassassin 3.0.5-3.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 spamassassin 3.0.5-3.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 spamassassin 3.0.5-3.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2006:0129

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

7.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.