Pyzor check fails with SpamAssassin 3.2.2

[Joachim Sauer]

Binary package hint: spamassassin

Since the newest update to 3.2.2 in Gutsy the Pyzor check in SpamAssassin doesn't correctly run anymore. This is a portion of my mail.info which shows the problem:

Sep 28 10:50:15 localhost spamd[17388]: spamd: got connection over /var/run/spamd.sock
Sep 28 10:50:15 localhost spamd[17388]: spamd: setuid to Debian-exim succeeded
Sep 28 10:50:15 localhost spamd[17388]: spamd: processing message <01c801ac$75cf1f10$<email address hidden>> for Debian-exim:112
Sep 28 10:50:18 localhost spamd[18126]: pyzor: check failed: util: setuid 0 to 112 failed! at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Util.pm line 1343.
Sep 28 10:50:24 localhost spamd[17388]: spamd: identified spam (12.8/5.0) for Debian-exim:112 in 8.9 seconds, 4550 bytes.
Sep 28 10:50:24 localhost spamd[17388]: spamd: result: Y 12 - BAYES_50,FH_HELO_ALMOST_IP,FH_HOST_ALMOST_IP,HTML_MESSAGE,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E4_51_100,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E8_51_100,RAZOR2_CHECK,URIBL_BLACK,URIBL_JP_SURBL scantime=8.9,size=4550,user=Debian-exim,uid=112,required_score=5.0,rhost=localhost,raddr=127.0.0.1,rport=/var/run/spamd.sock,mid=<01c801ac$75cf1f10$<email address hidden>>,bayes=0.500002,autolearn=spam
Sep 28 10:50:24 localhost spamd[17379]: prefork: child states: II

It looks like that failure does not influence any other tests, so luckily most Spam is still identified correctly but some (especially short ones) aren't correctly identified due to this bug.

Googling for the problem revealed http://www.nuonce.net/support/viewthread.php?fid=35&tid=1565&action=printable which then pointed to the corresponding bug report in the Apache Bugzilla:
http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5574

[Justin Mason (jm-jmason)]

yeah, 3.2.3 is strongly recommended -- 3.2.1 and 3.2.2 both have pretty serious bugs.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

spamassassin (3.2.3-0ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #147729)
    - Among other changes, correct pyzor processing (LP: #146217)
      (LP: #115853)

 -- Scott Kitterman <email address hidden> Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:20:15 -0400