Fedora 11 : spamass-milter-0.3.1-18.fc11 (2010-5176)

high Nessus Plugin ID 47381

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update includes a fix for a problem where if the milter is running using the '-x' option to expand aliases before passing inbound mail through SpamAssassin, a malicious client using a carefully-crafted SMTP session could execute arbitrary code on the mail server. The fix avoids the use of a shell in the alias expansion and hence there is no longer a problem with having to sanitize input from the client. This problem has been assigned CVE-2010-1132, which is tracked upstream at https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?29136 The update also contains improved Received-header-generation for message submission and a fix for a problem where the milter would erroneously log warnings about the mail server's configuration when the first message from a non-authenticated client passed through. As part of the fix for this issue, the required milter macro configuration for the mail server has changed slightly: see the README file included in the package for details.

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 spamass-milter package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 47381

File Name: fedora_2010-5176.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 7/1/2010

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: 9.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:spamass-milter

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/23/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1132

FEDORA: 2010-5176

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