Carefully crafted nefarious rule configuration (.cf) files can be configured to run system commands similar to CVE-2018-11805. With this bug unpatched, exploits can be injected in a number of scenarios including the same privileges as spamd is run which may be elevated though doing so remotely is difficult.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=d1b377ebfb6351d9c451fb8642c4fcb85c86e3de commit d1b377ebfb6351d9c451fb8642c4fcb85c86e3de Author: Philippe Chaintreuil <gentoo_bugs_peep@parallaxshift.com> AuthorDate: 2020-02-02 00:08:13 +0000 Commit: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-02-03 06:37:52 +0000 mail-filter/spamassassin: Bump to v3.4.4 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/707816 Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/14527 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.84, Repoman-2.3.20 Signed-off-by: Philippe Chaintreuil <gentoo_bugs_peep@parallaxshift.com> Signed-off-by: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> mail-filter/spamassassin/Manifest | 1 + mail-filter/spamassassin/spamassassin-3.4.4.ebuild | 284 +++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 285 insertions(+)
amd64 stable
s390 stable
arm stable
sparc stable
ppc stable
ppc64 stable
x86 stable
ia64 stable
hppa stable
arm64 stable
@maintainer(s), please cleanup by dropping vulnerable version mail-filter/spamassassin-3.4.3.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=5aa185a1decc48347bfa3943ebc6942ed8af3ea9 commit 5aa185a1decc48347bfa3943ebc6942ed8af3ea9 Author: Philippe Chaintreuil <gentoo_bugs_peep@parallaxshift.com> AuthorDate: 2020-03-26 19:46:39 +0000 Commit: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-03-27 12:00:56 +0000 mail-filter/spamassassin: Cleanup 3.4.3 ebuild dropping vulnerable version Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/707816 Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/15129 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.89, Repoman-2.3.20 Signed-off-by: Philippe Chaintreuil <gentoo_bugs_peep@parallaxshift.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> mail-filter/spamassassin/Manifest | 1 - mail-filter/spamassassin/spamassassin-3.4.3.ebuild | 284 --------------------- 2 files changed, 285 deletions(-)
Resetting sanity check; keywords are not fully specified and arches are not CC-ed.