USN-4899-2: SpamAssassin vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

• spamassassin - Perl-based spam filter using text analysis

Details

USN-4899-1 fixed a vulnerability in SpamAssassin. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

Damian Lukowski 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+esm3

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

References

• CVE-2020-1946

Related notices

• USN-4899-1: spamc, sa-compile, spamassassin