gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-202105-26.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202105-26">
  <title>SpamAssassin: Arbitrary command execution</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in SpamAssassin might allow remote attackers to
    execute arbitrary commands.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">SpamAssassin</product>
  <announced>2021-05-26</announced>
  <revised count="1">2021-05-26</revised>
  <bug>778002</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="mail-filter/spamassassin" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.4.5</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.4.5</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>SpamAssassin is an extensible email filter used to identify junk email.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>It was discovered that SpamAssassin incorrectly handled certain CF
      files.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could entice a user or automated system to process a
      specially crafted CF file using SpamAssassin, possibly resulting in
      execution of arbitrary commands with the privileges of the process or a
      Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All SpamAssassin users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=mail-filter/spamassassin-3.4.5"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1946">CVE-2020-1946</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2021-05-24T01:30:56Z">whissi</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2021-05-26T09:30:23Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>