RHEL 5 : spamassassin (RHSA-2007:0075)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 25316

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

Updated spamassassin packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

SpamAssassin provides a way to reduce unsolicited commercial email (spam) from incoming email.

A flaw was found in the way SpamAssassin processes HTML email containing URIs. A carefully crafted mail message could cause SpamAssassin to consume significant resources. If a number of these messages are sent, this could lead to a denial of service, potentially delaying or preventing the delivery of email. (CVE-2007-0451)

Users of SpamAssassin should upgrade to these updated packages which contain version 3.1.8 which is not vulnerable to these issues.

Solution

Update the affected spamassassin package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2007-0451

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007:0075

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 25316

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2007-0075.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/25/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, 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

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spamassassin, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/14/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/16/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-0451

BID: 22584

CWE: 399

RHSA: 2007:0075