A spamassassin security update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

RHSA-2021:4315-03: Moderate: spamassassin security update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: spamassassin security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:4315-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:   https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4315
Issue date: 2021-11-09
CVE Names: CVE-2020-1946
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1. Summary:

An update for spamassassin is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

3. Description:

The SpamAssassin tool provides a way to reduce unsolicited commercial email
(spam) from incoming email.

Security Fix(es):

* spamassassin: Malicious rule configuration files can be configured to run
system commands (CVE-2020-1946)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 8.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:

  https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1943276 - CVE-2020-1946 spamassassin: Malicious rule configuration files can be configured to run system commands

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):

Source:
spamassassin-3.4.4-4.el8.src.rpm

aarch64:
spamassassin-3.4.4-4.el8.aarch64.rpm
spamassassin-debuginfo-3.4.4-4.el8.aarch64.rpm
spamassassin-debugsource-3.4.4-4.el8.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
spamassassin-3.4.4-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm
spamassassin-debuginfo-3.4.4-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm
spamassassin-debugsource-3.4.4-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
spamassassin-3.4.4-4.el8.s390x.rpm
spamassassin-debuginfo-3.4.4-4.el8.s390x.rpm
spamassassin-debugsource-3.4.4-4.el8.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
spamassassin-3.4.4-4.el8.x86_64.rpm
spamassassin-debuginfo-3.4.4-4.el8.x86_64.rpm
spamassassin-debugsource-3.4.4-4.el8.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
  https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1946
  https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
  https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.5_release_notes/

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at   https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

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