spamassassin vulnerabilities

4 February 2020

spamassassin vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 19.10
• 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.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 19.10

spamassassin - 3.4.2-1ubuntu0.19.10.2

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

spamassassin - 3.4.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.3

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

spamassassin - 3.4.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.3

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-2020-1930
• CVE-2020-1931