Bug 1629536 (CVE-2018-11781)

Summary:	CVE-2018-11781 spamassassin: Local user code injection in the meta rule syntax
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Sam Fowler <sfowler>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jjelen, jskarvad, kevin, nb, olysonek, wtogami
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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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
Doc Text:	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.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2019-06-10 10:37:51 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
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Bug Depends On:	1629537, 1629538, 1632998, 1632999
Bug Blocks:	1629527

Description Sam Fowler 2018-09-17 03:26:59 UTC

Apache SpamAssassin before version 3.4.2 is vulnerable to local user code injection in the meta rule syntax.


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 03:29:38 UTC

Created spamassassin tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1629537]

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-11 21:29:41 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:2916 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2916