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SuSE 10 Security Update : SPAMAssassin (ZYPP Patch Number 3078)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 29581

Synopsis

The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.

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

Apply ZYPP patch number 3078.

See Also

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-0451.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 29581

File Name: suse_spamassassin-3078.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/13/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: 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: cpe:/o:suse:suse_linux

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/11/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-0451

CWE: 399