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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2020:4625-01 Moderate SpamAssassin Update

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Calendar Grey November 3, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
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An update for spamassassin is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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 configuration files can run system commands without any output or errors (CVE-2018-11805)
* spamassassin: crafted email message can lead to DoS (CVE-2019-12420)
* spamassassin: command injection via crafted configuration file (CVE-2020-1930)
* spamassassin: command injection via crafted configuration file (CVE-2020-1931)
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 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate DoS red hat enterprise spamassassin command injection

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11805 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-12420 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1930 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1931 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: spamassassin-3.4.2-10.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: spamassassin-3.4.2-10.el8.aarch64.rpm spamassassin-debuginfo-3.4.2-10.el8.aarch64.rpm spamassassin-debugsource-3.4.2-10.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: spamassassin-3.4.2-10.el8.ppc64le.rpm spamassassin-debuginfo-3.4.2-10.el8.ppc64le.rpm spamassassin-debugsource-3.4.2-10.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: spamassassin-3.4.2-10.el8.s390x.rpm spamassassin-debuginfo-3.4.2-10.el8.s390x.rpm spamassassin-debugsource-3.4.2-10.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: spamassassin-3.4.2-10.el8.x86_64.rpm spamassassin-debuginfo-3.4.2-10.el8.x86_64.rpm spamassassin-debugsource-3.4.2-10.el8.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-2020:4625-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4625
Issue date: 2020-11-03

Topic

An update for spamassassin is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.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 moderate DoS red hat enterprise spamassassin command injection

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1630362 - Obsolete channel sought.conf should be removed

1784974 - CVE-2018-11805 spamassassin: crafted configuration files can run system commands without any output or errors1784984 - CVE-2019-12420 spamassassin: crafted email message can lead to DoS

1802975 - CVE-2020-1931 spamassassin: command injection via crafted configuration file

1802977 - CVE-2020-1930 spamassassin: command injection via crafted configuration file

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