The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2020:3973 advisory - spamassassin: crafted email message can lead to DoS (CVE-2019-12420
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 67 |
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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 | Amazon Linux 2 : spamassassin (ALAS-2020-1545) | 27 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 Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2020:3973 and
# CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2020:3973 respectively.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(141583);
script_version("1.5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/10/09");
script_cve_id("CVE-2019-12420");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2020:3973");
script_name(english:"CentOS 7 : spamassassin (RHSA-2020:3973)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote CentOS Linux host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the
RHSA-2020:3973 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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3973");
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: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:"vendor_severity", value:"Moderate");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/12/12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/10/20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/10/20");
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:7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"CentOS Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/CentOS/release", "Host/CentOS/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");
exit(0);
}
include('rpm.inc');
include('rhel.inc');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/CentOS/release');
if (isnull(os_release) || 'CentOS' >!< os_release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'CentOS');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "CentOS(?: Linux)? release ([0-9]+)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'CentOS');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (!rhel_check_release(operator: 'ge', os_version: os_ver, rhel_version: '7')) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'CentOS 7.x', 'CentOS ' + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/CentOS/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu && 'ppc' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'CentOS', cpu);
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'spamassassin-3.4.0-6.el7', 'cpu':'ppc64le', 'release':'CentOS-7', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'spamassassin-3.4.0-6.el7', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'CentOS-7', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
var reference = NULL;
var _release = NULL;
var sp = NULL;
var _cpu = NULL;
var el_string = NULL;
var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
var epoch = NULL;
var 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['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
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['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
if (reference && _release) {
if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, 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
{
var tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'spamassassin');
}
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