Amazon Linux 2 - SpamAssassin excessive resource usage vulnerabilit
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 67 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Cent OS | spamassassin security update | 20 Oct 202018:57 | – | centos |
Tenable Nessus | NewStart CGSL CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05 : spamassassin Vulnerability (NS-SA-2021-0159) | 27 Oct 202100:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Scientific Linux Security Update : spamassassin on SL7.x x86_64 (20201001) | 21 Oct 202000:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | CentOS 7 : spamassassin (RHSA-2020:3973) | 20 Oct 202000:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : spamassassin Vulnerability (NS-SA-2021-0037) | 10 Mar 202100:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | RHEL 7 : spamassassin (RHSA-2020:3973) | 19 Nov 202000:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Oracle Linux 7 : spamassassin (ELSA-2020-3973) | 7 Oct 202000:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : spamassassin (SUSE-SU-2021:1163-1) | 14 Apr 202100:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Amazon Linux AMI : spamassassin (ALAS-2020-1341) | 10 Feb 202000:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | SUSE SLES15 Security Update : spamassassin (SUSE-SU-2021:1153-1) | 14 Apr 202100:00 | – | nessus |
##
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory ALAS-2020-1545.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(141946);
script_version("1.2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/10/27");
script_cve_id("CVE-2019-12420");
script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2020-1545");
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux 2 : spamassassin (ALAS-2020-1545)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of tested product installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a
vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2020-1545 advisory.
- In Apache SpamAssassin before 3.4.3, a message can be crafted in a way to use excessive resources.
Upgrading to SA 3.4.3 as soon as possible is the recommended fix but details will not be shared publicly.
(CVE-2019-12420)
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2020-1545.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-12420");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'yum update spamassassin' to update your system.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-12420");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/12/12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/10/22");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/10/27");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:spamassassin");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:spamassassin-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(release) || !strlen(release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "2")
{
if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux 2", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}
if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
pkgs = [
{'reference':'spamassassin-3.4.0-6.amzn2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2'},
{'reference':'spamassassin-3.4.0-6.amzn2', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2'},
{'reference':'spamassassin-3.4.0-6.amzn2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2'},
{'reference':'spamassassin-debuginfo-3.4.0-6.amzn2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2'},
{'reference':'spamassassin-debuginfo-3.4.0-6.amzn2', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2'},
{'reference':'spamassassin-debuginfo-3.4.0-6.amzn2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2'}
];
flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
reference = NULL;
release = NULL;
cpu = NULL;
el_string = NULL;
rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
allowmaj = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) release = package_array['release'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) cpu = package_array['cpu'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
if (reference && release) {
if (rpm_check(release:release, cpu:cpu, reference:reference, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
}
}
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "spamassassin / spamassassin-debuginfo");
}
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