5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
0.306 Low
EPSS
Percentile
97.0%
An updated spamassassin package that fixes a denial of service flaw 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 was found in SpamAssassin. An attacker could construct a message in such a way that would cause SpamAssassin to crash. If a number of these messages are 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) assigned the name CVE-2005-3351 to this issue.
The following issues have also been fixed in this update :
Users of SpamAssassin should upgrade to this updated package containing version 3.0.5, which is not vulnerable to these issues.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2006:0129 and
# CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0129 respectively.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(21978);
script_version("1.17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2005-3351");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2006:0129");
script_name(english:"CentOS 4 : spamassassin (CESA-2006:0129)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote CentOS host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"An updated spamassassin package that fixes a denial of service flaw 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 was found in SpamAssassin. An attacker could
construct a message in such a way that would cause SpamAssassin to
crash. If a number of these messages are 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) assigned the name CVE-2005-3351 to this issue.
The following issues have also been fixed in this update :
* service spamassassin restart sometimes fails * Content Boundary '--'
throws off message parser * sa-learn: massive memory usage on large
messages * High memory usage with many newlines * service spamassassin
messages not translated * Numerous other bug fixes that improve spam
filter accuracy and safety
Users of SpamAssassin should upgrade to this updated package
containing version 3.0.5, which is not vulnerable to these issues."
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-March/012703.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?25165338"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-March/012729.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?145d6fa9"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-March/012736.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?d7b96179"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected spamassassin package."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:spamassassin");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2005/11/20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2006/03/07");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2006/07/05");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"CentOS Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/CentOS/release", "Host/CentOS/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/CentOS/release");
if (isnull(release) || "CentOS" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "CentOS(?: Linux)? release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "CentOS");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^4([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS 4.x", "CentOS " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && "ia64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "CentOS", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-4", reference:"spamassassin-3.0.5-3.el4")) 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");
}