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OPENSUSE-SU-2021:0551-1

Vulnerability from csaf_opensuse - Published: 2021-04-14 14:51 - Updated: 2021-04-14 14:51
Summary
Security update for spamassassin
Severity
Important
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for spamassassin
Description of the patch: This update for spamassassin fixes the following issues: - CVE-2019-12420: memory leak via crafted messages (bsc#1159133) - CVE-2020-1946: security update (bsc#1184221) This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP1:Update update project.
Patchnames: openSUSE-2021-551
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
CVE-2019-12420
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 15.2:perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.5-lp152.10.3.1.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 15.2:perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-Plugin-iXhash2-2.05-lp152.10.3.1.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 15.2:spamassassin-3.4.5-lp152.10.3.1.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix
Threats
Impact important
CVE-2020-1946
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Recommended 3 products, the same list as for CVE-2019-12420
Threats
Impact important
References
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