ELA-397-1 spamassassin security update

arbitrary code execution

2021-04-02
Packagespamassassin
Version3.4.2-0+deb8u4
Related CVEs CVE-2020-1946


Damian Lukowski discovered a flaw in spamassassin, a Perl-based spam filter using text analysis. Malicious rule configuration files, possibly downloaded from an updates server, could execute arbitrary commands under multiple scenarios.



For Debian 8 jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 3.4.2-0+deb8u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your spamassassin packages.

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