SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : spamassassin (SUSE-SU-2019:1961-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 127038

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for spamassassin to version 3.4.2 fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2017-15705: Fixed denial of service via unclosed tags in crafted emails (bsc#1108745).

CVE-2018-11781: Fixed a code injection in the meta rule syntax by local users (bsc#1108748).

CVE-2018-11780: Fixed a potential remote code execution vulnerability in PDFInfo plugin (bsc#1108750).

Non-security issues fixed: Added four new plugins (disabled by default): HashBL, ResourceLimits, FromNameSpoof, Phishing

sa-update script: optional support for SHA-256 / SHA-512 been added for better validation of rules

GeoIP2 support has been added to RelayCountry and URILocalBL plugins

Several new or enhanced configuration options

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2019-1961=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP4-2019-1961=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 127038

File Name: suse_SU-2019-1961-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/25/2019

Updated: 1/6/2020

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-mail-spamassassin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:spamassassin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:spamassassin-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:spamassassin-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/24/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/2/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1238, CVE-2017-15705, CVE-2018-11780, CVE-2018-11781

Detections

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