5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.035 Low
EPSS
Percentile
91.5%
According to the SpamAssassin 2.64 release announcement :
Security fix prevents a denial of service attack open to certain malformed messages; this DoS affects all SpamAssassin 2.5x and 2.6x versions to date.
The issue appears to be triggered by overly long message headers.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database :
#
# Copyright 2003-2018 Jacques Vidrine and contributors
#
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#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(14345);
script_version("1.15");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/20 11:04:17");
script_cve_id("CVE-2004-0796");
script_bugtraq_id(10957);
script_name(english:"FreeBSD : SpamAssassin -- denial-of-service in tokenize_headers (0d3a5148-f512-11d8-9837-000c41e2cdad)");
script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package in pkg_info output");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"According to the SpamAssassin 2.64 release announcement :
Security fix prevents a denial of service attack open to certain
malformed messages; this DoS affects all SpamAssassin 2.5x and 2.6x
versions to date.
The issue appears to be triggered by overly long message headers."
);
# http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=spamassassin-announce&m=109168121628767
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://marc.info/?l=spamassassin-announce&m=109168121628767"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://search.cpan.org/src/JMASON/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.64/Changes"
);
# https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/0d3a5148-f512-11d8-9837-000c41e2cdad.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?0e3e3369"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected package.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:p5-Mail-SpamAssassin");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2004/08/04");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2004/08/23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2004/08/23");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2004-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("freebsd_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"p5-Mail-SpamAssassin<2.64")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
freebsd | freebsd | p5-mail-spamassassin | p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:p5-mail-spamassassin |
freebsd | freebsd | cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd |