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Ubuntu 14.04 ESM: USN-4265-2 Moderate: SpamAssassin Remote Code Issue

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Calendar Grey February 4, 2020
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Several vulnerabilities addressed in SpamAssassin for Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04 ESM clients as of February 2020.
Several security issues were fixed in SpamAssassin.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in SpamAssassin.

Software Description:

- spamassassin: Perl-based spam filter using text analysis

Details:

USN-4265-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in SpamAssassin. This update provides

the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that SpamAssassin incorrectly handled certain CF files.

If a user or automated system were tricked into using a specially-crafted

CF file, a remote attacker could possibly run arbitrary code.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue remote code execution Ubuntu SpamAssassin

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:
  spamassassin                    3.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm2

Ubuntu 12.04 ESM:
  spamassassin                    3.4.2-0ubuntu0.12.04.4

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4265-2

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4265-1

CVE-2020-1930, CVE-2020-1931

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February 04, 2020

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