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openSUSE 10 Security Update : spamassassin (spamassassin-3077)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27451

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This upgrade brings spamassassin to version 3.1.8 with following changes :

 - fix for CVE-2007-0451: possible DoS due to incredibly long URIs found in the message content.

 - disable perl module usage in update channels unless

 --allowplugins is specified

 - files with names starting/ending in whitespace weren't usable

 - remove Text::Wrap related code due to upstream issues

 - update spamassassin and sa-learn to better deal with STDIN

 - improvements and bug fixes related to DomainKeys and DKIM support

 - several updates for Received header parsing

 - several documentation updates and random taint-variable related issues

This update also adds some missing dependencies.

Solution

Update the affected spamassassin packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27451

File Name: suse_spamassassin-3077.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/17/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:perl-spamassassin, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:spamassassin, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.2

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/11/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-0451

CWE: 399