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High ALAS2-2018-1103 2 CVEs

Important: spamassassin security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Nov 7, 2018 · Updated Nov 8, 2018

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-11781: A flaw was found in the way a local user on the SpamAssassin server could inject code in the meta rule syntax. This could cause the arbitrary code execution on the server when these rules are being processed. 1629536: CVE-2018-11781 spamassassin: Local user code injection in the meta rule syntax CVE-2017-15705: A flaw was found in the way SpamAssassin processes HTML email containing unclosed HTML tags. A carefully crafted mail message could cause SpamAssassin to consume significant resources. If a large number of these messages are sent, a denial of service could occur potentially delaying or preventing the delivery of email. 1629521: CVE-2017-15705 spamassassin: Certain unclosed tags in crafted emails allow for scan timeouts and result in denial of service

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 spamassassin 0:3.4.0-4.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 spamassassin-debuginfo 0:3.4.0-4.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2017-15705.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-11781.html