Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 14:58:04 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: scheidell@secnap.net Subject: ports/142217: Y2010 bug in spamassassin rule Message-ID: <20100101205804.9E6703AF01D@n118.ewd.goldmark.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201001012120.o01LK4wB017439@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 142217 >Category: ports >Synopsis: Y2010 bug in spamassassin rule >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Jan 01 21:20:03 UTC 2010 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Jeffrey Goldberg >Release: FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD winky.ewd.goldmark.org 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #6: Thu Dec 3 15:49:09 CST 2009 root@winky.ewd.goldmark.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WINKY i386 >Description: The current version of SpamAssassin rules includes a rule that scores very highly any email message with a header Date greater than or equal to 2010. In /usr/local/share/spamassassin/72_active there is a rule ##{ FH_DATE_PAST_20XX header FH_DATE_PAST_20XX Date =~ /20[1-9][0-9]/ [if-unset: 2006] describe FH_DATE_PAST_20XX The date is grossly in the future. ##} FH_DATE_PAST_20XX which catches mail with a Date including the current year (2010), yet this rule is scored heavily. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: There are several options to fix. (1) add in a local scoring rule like score FH_DATE_PAST_20XX 0 (2) change the regular expression in the current rule to look another 10 years in the future. (3) Do nothing and hope that users are all using sa-update which should have this fixed soon. Note that this is being actively discussed on the spamassassin mailing list. http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/spamassassin-users/201001.mbox/thread >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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