Bug 1784984 (CVE-2019-12420) - CVE-2019-12420 spamassassin: crafted email message can lead to DoS
Summary: CVE-2019-12420 spamassassin: crafted email message can lead to DoS
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2019-12420
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1784986 1812976 1812977
Blocks: 1784987
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-12-18 20:36 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2023-12-15 17:06 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: spamassassin 3.4.3
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Last Closed: 2020-09-29 21:59:19 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:3973 0 None None None 2020-09-29 20:15:00 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:4625 0 None None None 2020-11-04 02:28:13 UTC

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
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