spamassassin vulnerabilities

4 February 2020

spamassassin vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 12.04 ESM

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in SpamAssassin.

Software Description

• spamassassin - Perl-based spam filter using text analysis

Details

USN-4265-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in SpamAssassin. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory 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 14.04 ESM

spamassassin - 3.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm2

Ubuntu 12.04 ESM

spamassassin - 3.4.2-0ubuntu0.12.04.4

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

• USN-4265-1
• CVE-2020-1930
• CVE-2020-1931