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Red Hat 8: RHSA-2021-4315-01 Moderate: SpamAssassin Malicious Rule Threat

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Calendar Grey November 9, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The recent SpamAssassin upgrade for Red Hat Enterprise Linux tackles significant security vulnerabilities, improving defenses against email threats.
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: Malicious rule configuration files can be configured to run system commands (CVE-2020-1946)
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 8.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux spamassassin email filter malicious rule

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1946 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.5_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: spamassassin-3.4.4-4.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: spamassassin-3.4.4-4.el8.aarch64.rpm spamassassin-debuginfo-3.4.4-4.el8.aarch64.rpm spamassassin-debugsource-3.4.4-4.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: spamassassin-3.4.4-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm spamassassin-debuginfo-3.4.4-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm spamassassin-debugsource-3.4.4-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: spamassassin-3.4.4-4.el8.s390x.rpm spamassassin-debuginfo-3.4.4-4.el8.s390x.rpm spamassassin-debugsource-3.4.4-4.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: spamassassin-3.4.4-4.el8.x86_64.rpm spamassassin-debuginfo-3.4.4-4.el8.x86_64.rpm spamassassin-debugsource-3.4.4-4.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-2021:4315-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4315
Issue date: 2021-11-09

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 security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux spamassassin email filter malicious rule

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1943276 - CVE-2020-1946 spamassassin: Malicious rule configuration files can be configured to run system commands

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