Bug 1629521 (CVE-2017-15705) - CVE-2017-15705 spamassassin: Certain unclosed tags in crafted emails allow for scan timeouts and result in denial of service
Summary: CVE-2017-15705 spamassassin: Certain unclosed tags in crafted emails allow fo...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-15705
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1629522 1629523 1632998 1632999
Blocks: 1629527
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-09-17 03:15 UTC by Sam Fowler
Modified: 2021-02-16 23:02 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: spamassassin 3.4.2
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:37:50 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:2916 0 None None None 2018-10-11 21:29:44 UTC

Description Sam Fowler 2018-09-17 03:15:42 UTC 
Apache SpamAssassin before version 3.4.2 is vulnerable to a denial of service in the handling of crafted email. The vulnerability arises with certain unclosed tags in emails that cause markup to be handled incorrectly leading to scan timeouts.



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 03:16:06 UTC 
Created spamassassin tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1629522]
Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2018-09-25 04:51:09 UTC 
Upstream patch:

https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1815853
https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1815688
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-11 21:29:38 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
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