Debian DSA-4584-1 : spamassassin - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 132063

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in spamassassin, a Perl-based spam filter using text analysis.

- CVE-2018-11805 Malicious rule or configuration files, possibly downloaded from an updates server, could execute arbitrary commands under multiple scenarios.

- CVE-2019-12420 Specially crafted mulitpart messages can cause spamassassin to use excessive resources, resulting in a denial of service.

Solution

Upgrade the spamassassin packages.

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 3.4.2-1~deb9u2.

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 3.4.2-1+deb10u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 132063

File Name: debian_DSA-4584.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 12/16/2019

Updated: 1/13/2020

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-11805

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:spamassassin

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/14/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-11805, CVE-2019-12420

DSA: 4584

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