RHEL 4 : spamassassin (RHSA-2005:498)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 18554

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated spamassassin package that fixes a denial of service bug when parsing malformed messages is now available.

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

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

A denial of service bug has been found in SpamAssassin. An attacker could construct a message in such a way that would cause SpamAssassin to consume CPU resources. If a number of these messages were sent it could lead to a denial of service, potentially preventing the delivery or filtering of email. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2005-1266 to this issue.

SpamAssassin version 3.0.4 additionally solves a number of bugs including: - #156390 Spamassassin consumes too much memory during learning - #155423 URI blacklist spam bypass - #147464 Users may now disable subject rewriting - Smarter default Bayes scores - Numerous other bug fixes that improve spam filter accuracy and safety

For full details, please refer to the change details of 3.0.2, 3.0.3, and 3.0.4 in SpamAssassin's online documentation at the following address: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/NextRelease

Users of SpamAssassin should update to this updated package, containing version 3.0.4 which is not vulnerable to this issue and resolves these bugs.

Solution

Update the affected spamassassin package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2005-1266

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005:498

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 18554

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2005-498.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/24/2005

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spamassassin, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/23/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/15/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1266

RHSA: 2005:498