Bug 26150 - spamassassin new security issues CVE-2020-1930 and CVE-2020-1931
Summary: spamassassin new security issues CVE-2020-1930 and CVE-2020-1931
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Security (show other bugs)
Version: 7
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: QA Team
QA Contact: Sec team
URL:
Whiteboard: MGA7-64-OK
Keywords: advisory, validated_update
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2020-01-30 03:59 CET by David Walser
Modified: 2020-02-09 20:15 CET (History)
4 users (show)

See Also:
Source RPM: spamassassin-3.4.3-1.mga7.src.rpm, spamassassin-rules-3.4.3-1.mga7.src.rpm
CVE: CVE-2020-1930, CVE-2020-1931
Status comment:


Attachments

Description David Walser 2020-01-30 03:59:15 CET
Apache has released SpamAssassin 3.4.4 on January 28, fixing two security issues:
https://spamassassin.apache.org/news.html
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/branches/3.4/build/announcements/3.4.4.txt

Mageia 7 is also affected.
David Walser 2020-01-30 03:59:25 CET

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA7TOO

Comment 1 Nicolas Salguero 2020-01-30 09:40:12 CET
Suggested advisory:
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The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities:

Nefarious rule configuration (.cf) files can be configured to run system commands with sa-compile. (CVE-2020-1930)

Nefarious rule configuration (.cf) files can be configured to run system commands with warnings. (CVE-2020-1931)

References:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-1930
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-1931
https://spamassassin.apache.org/news.html
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/branches/3.4/build/announcements/3.4.4.txt
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Updated packages in core/updates_testing:
========================
spamassassin-3.4.4-1.mga7
spamassassin-sa-compile-3.4.4-1.mga7
spamassassin-tools-3.4.4-1.mga7
spamassassin-spamd-3.4.4-1.mga7
spamassassin-spamc-3.4.4-1.mga7
perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.4-1.mga7
perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-Spamd-3.4.4-1.mga7
spamassassin-rules-3.4.4-1.mga7

from SRPMS:
spamassassin-3.4.4-1.mga7.src.rpm
spamassassin-rules-3.4.4-1.mga7.src.rpm

Whiteboard: MGA7TOO => (none)
Status: NEW => ASSIGNED
Assignee: nicolas.salguero => qa-bugs
Version: Cauldron => 7
CVE: (none) => CVE-2020-1930, CVE-2020-1931

Comment 2 David Walser 2020-01-30 13:57:47 CET
Apache has issued advisories for this today (January 30):
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/30/3
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/30/2

The advisories have a little more detail on the issues.  Please add those to the References.
Comment 3 PC LX 2020-02-04 10:57:01 CET
Installed and tested without issue.

I'm using spamassassin with kmail and its evaluating messages correctly. Its in use for several days without issues.

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X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on marte.home
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.5 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE
	autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
----------------------------------------------------------------------


System: Mageia 7, x86_64, Plasma DE, LXQt DE, kmail, Intel CPU, nVidia GPU using nvidia340 proprietary driver.


$ uname -a
Linux marte 5.4.17-desktop-1.mga7 #1 SMP Sat Feb 1 21:57:04 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ rpm -qa | grep -i spamassassin
spamassassin-3.4.4-1.mga7
spamassassin-rules-3.4.4-1.mga7
perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.4-1.mga7

CC: (none) => mageia
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA7-64-OK

Comment 4 Thomas Andrews 2020-02-06 16:29:52 CET
Good enough for me. Validating. Advisory in Comment 1.

Keywords: (none) => validated_update
CC: (none) => andrewsfarm, sysadmin-bugs

Comment 5 David Walser 2020-02-07 21:07:17 CET
Debian and Ubuntu have issued advisories for this on February 1 and 4:
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4615
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4265-1/
Thomas Backlund 2020-02-09 19:31:57 CET

CC: (none) => tmb
Keywords: (none) => advisory

Comment 6 Mageia Robot 2020-02-09 20:15:08 CET
An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository.

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0079.html

Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED


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