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RHEL 4 : spamassassin (RHSA-2006:0129)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 21032

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated spamassassin package that fixes a denial of service flaw is now available.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

SpamAssassin provides a way to reduce unsolicited commercial email (SPAM) from incoming email.

A denial of service bug was found in SpamAssassin. An attacker could construct a message in such a way that would cause SpamAssassin to crash. If a number of these messages are sent, it could lead to a denial of service, potentially preventing the delivery or filtering of email. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) assigned the name CVE-2005-3351 to this issue.

The following issues have also been fixed in this update :

* service spamassassin restart sometimes fails * Content Boundary '--' throws off message parser * sa-learn: massive memory usage on large messages * High memory usage with many newlines * service spamassassin messages not translated * Numerous other bug fixes that improve spam filter accuracy and safety

Users of SpamAssassin should upgrade to this updated package containing version 3.0.5, which is not vulnerable to these issues.

Solution

Update the affected spamassassin package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2005-3351

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006:0129

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 21032

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2006-0129.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/8/2006

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spamassassin, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/7/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/20/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-3351

RHSA: 2006:0129