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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200608-06">
+ <title>Courier MTA: Denial of Service vulnerability</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ Courier MTA has fixed a DoS issue related to usernames containing a "="
+ character.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">Courier</product>
+ <announced>2006-08-04</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2006-08-04</revised>
+ <bug>135005</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="mail-mta/courier" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">0.53.2</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">0.53.2</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Courier MTA is an integrated mail and groupware server based on open
+ protocols.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Courier MTA has fixed a security issue relating to usernames containing
+ the "=" character, causing high CPU utilization.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially
+ crafted email to a mail gateway running a vulnerable version of Courier
+ MTA.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Courier MTA users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=mail-mta/courier-0.53.2"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2659">CVE-2006-2659</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2006-08-02T13:22:29Z">
+ koon
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-08-02T13:22:37Z">
+ koon
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-08-02T13:39:08Z">
+ dizzutch
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>