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openSUSE 10 Security Update : spamassassin (spamassassin-1904)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27449

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes the following security problem in SpamAssassin :

 - CVE-2006-2447: SpamAssassin when running with vpopmail and the paranoid (-P) switch, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted message that is not properly handled when invoking spamd with the virtual pop username.

At the same time we upgraded SpamAssassin to version 3.1.3, bringing lots of bug fixes and new rules.

Please make sure you verify that it still works with your configuration.

Also included is now 'sa-update', a rule update script. For this script to work make sure that the perl-IO-ZLib and perl-libwww-perl packages are installed.

Solution

Update the affected spamassassin packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27449

File Name: suse_spamassassin-1904.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/17/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:perl-spamassassin, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:spamassassin, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.1

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/27/2006

Exploitable With

Metasploit (SpamAssassin spamd Remote Command Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-2447