The Oracle Linux 7 host has a vulnerable spamassassin package installed (spamd 3.4.0-6.el7) as referenced in ELSA-2020-3973 due to excessive resource usage vulnerability (CVE-2019-12420). Update the affected package
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 | Amazon Linux 2 : spamassassin (ALAS-2020-1545) | 27 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 | Scientific Linux Security Update : spamassassin on SL7.x x86_64 (20201001) | 21 Oct 202000:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | SUSE SLES15 Security Update : spamassassin (SUSE-SU-2021:1153-1) | 14 Apr 202100:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | FreeBSD : spamassassin -- multiple vulnerabilities (70111759-1dae-11ea-966a-206a8a720317) | 16 Dec 201900:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Debian DSA-4584-1 : spamassassin - security update | 16 Dec 201900:00 | – | nessus |
##
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2020-3973.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(141219);
script_version("1.4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/10/22");
script_cve_id("CVE-2019-12420");
script_name(english:"Oracle Linux 7 : spamassassin (ELSA-2020-3973)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the
ELSA-2020-3973 advisory.
- Fix CVE-2019-12420
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.
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://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2020-3973.html");
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:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/12/12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/10/06");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/10/07");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:spamassassin");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Oracle Linux 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/OracleLinux", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list", "Host/local_checks_enabled");
exit(0);
}
include('rpm.inc');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/OracleLinux')) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux');
var os_release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(os_release) || !pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux)", string:os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux) .*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Oracle Linux');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^7([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux 7', 'Oracle Linux ' + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Oracle Linux', cpu);
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'spamassassin-3.4.0-6.el7', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'7', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'spamassassin-3.4.0-6.el7', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'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;
var exists_check = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = 'EL' + 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 (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
if (reference && _release) {
if (exists_check) {
if (rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check) && 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++;
} else {
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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