SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : spamassassin (SUSE-SU-2019:2011-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 127751

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for spamassassin to version 3.4.2 fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2018-11781: Fixed an issue where a local user could inject code in the meta rule syntax (bsc#1108748).

CVE-2018-11780: Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability in the PDFInfo plugin (bsc#1108750).

CVE-2017-15705: Fixed a denial of service through unclosed tags in crafted emails (bsc#1108745).

CVE-2016-1238: Fixed an issue where perl would load modules from the current directory (bsc#1108749).

Non-security issues fixed: Use systemd timers instead of cron (bsc#1115411)

Fixed incompatibility with Net::DNS >= 1.01 (bsc#1107765)

Fixed warning about deprecated regex during sa-update (bsc#1069831)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-15-2019-2011=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2019-2011=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 127751

File Name: suse_SU-2019-2011-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/12/2019

Updated: 5/6/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-11780

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:spamassassin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:spamassassin-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-mail-spamassassin-plugin-ixhash2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:spamassassin-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-mail-spamassassin

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/29/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/2/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1238, CVE-2017-15705, CVE-2018-11780, CVE-2018-11781

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