Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title spamassassin security update
Informations
Name DSA-4584 First vendor Publication 2019-12-14
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2019-12-14
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 7.5
Base Score 7.5 Environmental Score 7.5
impact SubScore 3.6 Temporal Score 7.5
Exploitabality Sub Score 3.9
 
Attack Vector Network Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in spamassassin, a Perl-based spam filter using text analysis.

CVE-2018-11805

Malicious rule or configuration files, possibly downloaded from an updates server, could execute arbitrary commands under multiple scenarios.

CVE-2019-12420

Specially crafted mulitpart messages can cause spamassassin to use excessive resources, resulting in a denial of service.

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 3.4.2-1~deb9u2.

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 3.4.2-1+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your spamassassin packages.

For the detailed security status of spamassassin please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/spamassassin

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4584

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')
50 % CWE-78 Improper Sanitization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 8
Os 3

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Date Informations
2020-05-23 13:03:42
  • Multiple Updates
2019-12-14 17:19:13
  • First insertion