USN-4265-2: SpamAssassin vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• 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.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04

• spamassassin - 3.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm2

Ubuntu 12.04

• spamassassin - 3.4.2-0ubuntu0.12.04.4

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

References

• CVE-2020-1930
• CVE-2020-1931

Related notices

• USN-4265-1: sa-compile, spamassassin, spamc