[TriLUG] URGENT: spamassassin update
Michael Hrivnak
mhrivnak at hrivnak.org
Fri Jan 1 23:01:20 EST 2010
This has made slashdot:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/01/02/0027207/SpamAssassin-2010-Bug
Also, I incorrectly listed the default score for this rule as 3.5, but it is
more complicated. It may vary from 2.075-3.554 depending on your use of the
Bayesian classifier and network tests.
Michael
On Friday 01 January 2010 10:23:35 pm Michael Hrivnak wrote:
> If you run spamassassin anywhere, run sa-update immediately.
>
> There is a default rule, "FH_DATE_PAST_20XX", which is supposed to match
> when a date is "grossly in the future". They thoughtfully defined this as
> anything in or after the year 2010. It has obviously caused chaos today
> around the world. In my debian deployments, the default score for that
> rule is 3.5.
>
> They have updated the rule, again quite thoughtfully, so that it now
> defines "grossly in the future" as any date in or after 2020. Hopefully
> this is just a quick fix, and they'll do something more intelligent soon.
>
> Here is the issue:
> https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6269
>
> The rule update should be automatically picked up when when sa-update runs
> next. This is how you can verify that the new rule is in place (obviously
> change the path to match your system):
>
> $ grep FH_DATE_PAST_20XX
> /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002005/updates_spamassassin_org/72_active.cf
> ##{ FH_DATE_PAST_20XX
> header FH_DATE_PAST_20XX Date =~ /20[2-9][0-9]/ [if-unset: 2006]
> describe FH_DATE_PAST_20XX The date is grossly in the future.
> ##} FH_DATE_PAST_20XX
>
> Note that the regular expression now includes "[2-9]" instead of "[1-9]".
>
> Good luck,
> Michael
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