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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4584-1 spamassassin -- security update

Date Reported:

14 Dec 2019

Affected Packages:

spamassassin

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 946652, Bug 946653.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-11805, CVE-2019-12420.

More information:

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in spamassassin, a Perl-based spam filter using text analysis.

• CVE-2018-11805

  Malicious rule or configuration files, possibly downloaded from an updates server, could execute arbitrary commands under multiple scenarios.

• CVE-2019-12420

  Specially crafted mulitpart messages can cause spamassassin to use excessive resources, resulting in a denial of service.

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 3.4.2-1~deb9u2.

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 3.4.2-1+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your spamassassin packages.

For the detailed security status of spamassassin please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/spamassassin