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HistoryAug 23, 2004 - 12:00 a.m.

FreeBSD : SpamAssassin -- denial-of-service in tokenize_headers (0d3a5148-f512-11d8-9837-000c41e2cdad)

2004-08-2300:00:00
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9

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 :
#
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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");
VendorProductVersionCPE
freebsdfreebsdp5-mail-spamassassinp-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:p5-mail-spamassassin
freebsdfreebsdcpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

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%

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