diff -ur Mail-SpamAssassin-2.52.orig/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm Mail-SpamAssassin-2.52/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm
--- Mail-SpamAssassin-2.52.orig/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm	Mon Mar 24 19:42:26 2003
+++ Mail-SpamAssassin-2.52/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm	Tue Mar 25 12:51:22 2003
@@ -258,6 +258,9 @@
 
   $self->{save_pattern_hits} ||= 0;
 
+  # Make sure that we clean $PATH if we're tainted
+  Mail::SpamAssassin::Util::clean_path_in_taint_mode();
+
   # this could probably be made a little faster; for now I'm going
   # for slow but safe, by keeping in quotes
   if (Mail::SpamAssassin::Util::am_running_on_windows()) {