Debian DSA-4584-1: spamassassin - fix arbitrary command execution and denial of service issue
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 125 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ubuntu | SpamAssassin vulnerabilities | 13 Jan 202000:00 | – | ubuntu |
Ubuntu | SpamAssassin vulnerabilities | 15 Jan 202000:00 | – | ubuntu |
Amazon | Medium: spamassassin | 4 Feb 202022:46 | – | amazon |
Amazon | Medium: spamassassin | 22 Oct 202018:39 | – | amazon |
OSV | spamassassin - security update | 14 Dec 201900:00 | – | osv |
OSV | spamassassin - security update | 16 Dec 201900:00 | – | osv |
OSV | Red Hat Security Advisory: spamassassin security update | 16 Sep 202403:48 | – | osv |
OSV | CVE-2018-11805 | 12 Dec 201923:15 | – | osv |
OSV | Red Hat Security Advisory: spamassassin security update | 16 Sep 202403:47 | – | osv |
OSV | CVE-2019-12420 | 12 Dec 201923:15 | – | osv |
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-4584. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(132063);
script_version("1.5");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/01/13");
script_cve_id("CVE-2018-11805", "CVE-2019-12420");
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"4584");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-4584-1 : spamassassin - security update");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Two vulnerabilities were discovered in spamassassin, a Perl-based spam
filter using text analysis.
- CVE-2018-11805
Malicious rule or configuration files, possibly
downloaded from an updates server, could execute
arbitrary commands under multiple scenarios.
- CVE-2019-12420
Specially crafted mulitpart messages can cause
spamassassin to use excessive resources, resulting in a
denial of service."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=946652"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=946653"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11805"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-12420"
);
# https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/spamassassin
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?92e1b8a1"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/spamassassin"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/spamassassin"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4584"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the spamassassin packages.
For the oldstable distribution (stretch), these problems have been
fixed in version 3.4.2-1~deb9u2.
For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed
in version 3.4.2-1+deb10u1."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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-2018-11805");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:spamassassin");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/12/12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/12/14");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/12/16");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"10.0", prefix:"sa-compile", reference:"3.4.2-1+deb10u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"10.0", prefix:"spamassassin", reference:"3.4.2-1+deb10u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"10.0", prefix:"spamc", reference:"3.4.2-1+deb10u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"sa-compile", reference:"3.4.2-1~deb9u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"spamassassin", reference:"3.4.2-1~deb9u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"spamc", reference:"3.4.2-1~deb9u2")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
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