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FreeBSD : p5-Mail-SpamAssassin -- denial of service vulnerability (cc4ce06b-e01c-11d9-a8bd-000cf18bbe54)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 19123

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Apache SpamAssassin Security Team reports :

Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.4 was recently released, and fixes a denial of service vulnerability in versions 3.0.1, 3.0.2, and 3.0.3. The vulnerability allows certain misformatted long message headers to cause spam checking to take a very long time.

While the exploit has yet to be seen in the wild, we are concerned that there may be attempts to abuse the vulnerability in the future.
Therefore, we strongly recommend all users of these versions upgrade to Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.4 as soon as possible.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?19eed3bf

http://www.nessus.org/u?ee06936c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 19123

File Name: freebsd_pkg_cc4ce06be01c11d9a8bd000cf18bbe54.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Published: 7/13/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:p5-mail-spamassassin, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 6/18/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/15/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1266