Bug 1784984 (CVE-2019-12420)

Summary: CVE-2019-12420 spamassassin: crafted email message can lead to DoS
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: apmukher, jskarvad, kevin, nb, olysonek, sbalasub, scorneli, yozone, zdohnal
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: spamassassin 3.4.3 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On: 1784986, 1812976, 1812977    
Bug Blocks: 1784987    

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-12-18 20:36:40 UTC
In Apache SpamAssassin before 3.4.3, a message can be crafted in a way to use excessive resources. Upgrading to SA 3.4.3 as soon as possible is the recommended fix but details will not be shared publicly.

Reference:
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5863d6c42fc9595a29566732f12348cde0ca0e41bda91695c62041de@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-12-18 20:37:02 UTC
Created spamassassin tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1784986]

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2020-09-29 20:14:58 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:3973 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3973

Comment 14 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-09-29 21:59:19 UTC
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-12420

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-04 02:28:28 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2020:4625 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4625