openSUSE Security Update : spamassassin (openSUSE-2019-1831)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 127739

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

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

Security issues fixed :

- CVE-2018-11781: Fixed an issue where a local user could inject code in the meta rule syntax (bsc#1108748).

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

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

- CVE-2016-1238: Fixed an issue where perl would load modules from the current directory (bsc#1108749).

Non-security issues fixed :

- Use systemd timers instead of cron (bsc#1115411)

- Fixed incompatibility with Net::DNS >= 1.01 (bsc#1107765)

- Fixed warning about deprecated regex during sa-update (bsc#1069831)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected spamassassin packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 127739

File Name: openSUSE-2019-1831.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/12/2019

Updated: 5/6/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, 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 Score Source: CVE-2018-11780

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: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:perl-mail-spamassassin, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:perl-mail-spamassassin-plugin-ixhash2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:spamassassin, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:spamassassin-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:spamassassin-debugsource

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: 8/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/2/2016

Reference Information

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

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