Fedora Core 5 : spamassassin-3.1.3-1.fc5 (2006-598)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 24118

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

3.1.3 Resolves CVE-2006-2447.

Note that you are affected by this bug only if you launched spamd with both --vpopmail and --paranoid, which is not a common configuration.

Also included are bug fixes from 3.1.2.

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

Solution

Update the affected spamassassin and / or spamassassin-debuginfo packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 24118

File Name: fedora_2006-598.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 1/17/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:spamassassin-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:spamassassin

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/6/2006

Exploitable With

Metasploit (SpamAssassin spamd Remote Command Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-2447

FEDORA: 2006-598

Detections

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