Bug 1629532 (CVE-2018-11780)

Summary:	CVE-2018-11780 spamassassin: Potential remote code execution vulnerability in PDFInfo plugin
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Sam Fowler <sfowler>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jjelen, jskarvad, kevin, nb, olysonek, wtogami
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	spamassassin 3.4.2	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed:	2018-10-12 03:27:03 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1629534, 1629535
Bug Blocks:	1629527

Description Sam Fowler 2018-09-17 03:22:40 UTC

Apache SpamAssassin before version 3.4.2 is vulnerable to a potential remote code execution vulnerability in the PDFInfo plugin.


External Reference:

https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/spamassassin-announce/201809.mbox/raw/%3Cc57c0f41-742c-3c3e-249c-ae2614bf0d7d%40apache.org%3E/

Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-09-17 03:23:04 UTC

Created spamassassin tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1629534]

Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2018-09-24 08:16:51 UTC

Upstream patch:
https://github.com/apache/spamassassin/commit/c1d8a04661e7ed3da9d58dd19ca23d726333e880#diff-60016dbf9fbe928c87dc724d9e0e883c

Comment 7 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2018-09-24 10:07:51 UTC

The affected PDF plugin is not shipped with the versions of SpamAssassin shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.