spamassassin vulnerabilities

13 January 2020

spamassassin vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 19.10
• Ubuntu 19.04
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in SpamAssassin.

Software Description

• spamassassin - Perl-based spam filter using text analysis

Details

It was discovered that SpamAssassin incorrectly handled certain CF files. If a user or automated system were tricked into using a specially-crafted CF file, a remote attacker could possibly run arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-11805)

It was discovered that SpamAssassin incorrectly handled certain messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause SpamAssassin to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2019-12420)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.10

spamassassin - 3.4.2-1ubuntu0.19.10.1

Ubuntu 19.04

spamassassin - 3.4.2-1ubuntu0.19.04.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

spamassassin - 3.4.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

spamassassin - 3.4.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2018-11805
• CVE-2019-12420