Executive Summary

Summary
Title SpamAssassin vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-3811-1 First vendor Publication 2018-11-06
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2018-11-06
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in SpamAssassin.

Software Description: - spamassassin: Perl-based spam filter using text analysis

Details:

It was discovered that SpamAssassin incorrectly handled certain unclosed tags in emails. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-15705)

It was discovered that SpamAssassin incorrectly handled the PDFInfo plugin. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-11780)

It was discovered that SpamAssassin incorrectly handled meta rule syntax. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-11781)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
spamassassin 3.4.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
spamassassin 3.4.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
spamassassin 3.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug fixes. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3811-1
CVE-2017-15705, CVE-2018-11780, CVE-2018-11781

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spamassassin/3.4.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spamassassin/3.4.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spamassassin/3.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3811-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
67 % CWE-94 Failure to Control Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
33 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 8
Application 1
Os 4
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-46d7a7f63e.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-8f0df2c366.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-12-17 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201812-07.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-11-14 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1578.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-11-09 Name : The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.
File : al2_ALAS-2018-1103.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-10-19 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2018-1091.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-10-16 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2018-2916.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-10-01 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-6ed251c42b.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-09-27 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_613193a0c1b411e8ae2d54e1ad3d6335.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2019-01-08 00:19:00
  • First insertion