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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2020-3973-01 Moderate: DoS in Spamassassin

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Calendar Grey September 29, 2020
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The recent security advisory concerning Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 includes an update for spamassassin that mitigates a moderate denial-of-service vulnerability.
An update for spamassassin is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The SpamAssassin tool provides a way to reduce unsolicited commercial email (spam) from incoming email.
Security Fix(es):
* spamassassin: crafted email message can lead to DoS (CVE-2019-12420)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update DoS Red Hat Enterprise Linux spamassassin Moderate

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-12420 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.9_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
Source: spamassassin-3.4.0-6.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: spamassassin-3.4.0-6.el7.x86_64.rpm spamassassin-debuginfo-3.4.0-6.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: spamassassin-3.4.0-6.el7.src.rpm
ppc64: spamassassin-3.4.0-6.el7.ppc64.rpm spamassassin-debuginfo-3.4.0-6.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: spamassassin-3.4.0-6.el7.ppc64le.rpm spamassassin-debuginfo-3.4.0-6.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: spamassassin-3.4.0-6.el7.s390x.rpm spamassassin-debuginfo-3.4.0-6.el7.s390x.rpm
x86_64: spamassassin-3.4.0-6.el7.x86_64.rpm spamassassin-debuginfo-3.4.0-6.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):
Source: spamassassin-3.4.0-6.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: spamassassin-3.4.0-6.el7.x86_64.rpm spamassassin-debuginfo-3.4.0-6.el7.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:3973-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3973
Issue date: 2020-09-29

Topic

An update for spamassassin is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update DoS Red Hat Enterprise Linux spamassassin Moderate

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1784984 - CVE-2019-12420 spamassassin: crafted email message can lead to DoS

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