Bug 1629532 – CVE-2018-11780 spamassassin: Potential remote code execution vulnerability in PDFInfo plugin

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Bug 1629532 - (CVE-2018-11780) CVE-2018-11780 spamassassin: Potential remote code execution vulnerability in PDFInfo plugin

Summary:	CVE-2018-11780 spamassassin: Potential remote code execution vulnerability in...

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2018-11780

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1629535 1629534
Blocks:	1629527
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Reported:	2018-09-16 23:22 EDT by Sam Fowler
Modified:	2018-10-11 23:27 EDT (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	spamassassin 3.4.2
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Last Closed:	2018-10-11 23:27:03 EDT
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Description Sam Fowler 2018-09-16 23:22:40 EDT

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 2018-09-16 23:23:04 EDT

Created spamassassin tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1629534]

Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2018-09-24 04:16:51 EDT

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

Comment 7 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2018-09-24 06:07:51 EDT

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

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