Debian DLA-2037-1 : spamassassin security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 132081

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security 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.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 3.4.2-0+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your spamassassin packages.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected sa-compile, spamassassin, and spamc packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 132081

File Name: debian_DLA-2037.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 12/17/2019

Updated: 1/11/2021

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: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:sa-compile, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:spamc, 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: 12/16/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2019

Reference Information

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

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