Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.56885
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2006:0543
Summary:	Redhat Security Advisory RHSA-2006:0543
Description:	The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2006:0543. SpamAssassin provides a way to reduce unsolicited commercial email (SPAM) from incoming email. A flaw was found with the way the Spamassassin spamd daemon processes the virtual pop username passed to it. If a site is running spamd with both the - --vpopmail and --paranoid flags, it is possible for a remote user with the ability to connect to the spamd daemon to execute arbitrary commands as the user running the spamd daemon. (CVE-2006-2447) Note: None of the IMAP or POP servers shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 support vpopmail delivery. Running spamd with the --vpopmail and - --paranoid flags is uncommon and not the default startup option as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Spamassassin, as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, performs RBL lookups against visi.com to help determine if an email is spam. However, this DNS RBL has recently disappeared, resulting in mail filtering delays and timeouts. Users of SpamAssassin should upgrade to these updated packages containing version 3.0.6 and backported patches, which are not vulnerable to these issues. Solution: Please note that this update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0543.html http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate Risk factor : High
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-2447 Bugtraq: 20060607 rPSA-2006-0096-1 spamassassin (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/436288/100/0/threaded Debian Security Information: DSA-1090 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1090 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-09.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:103 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0543.html http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0034/ BugTraq ID: 18290 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18290 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9184 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2148 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016230 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016235 http://secunia.com/advisories/20443 http://secunia.com/advisories/20430 http://secunia.com/advisories/20482 http://secunia.com/advisories/20531 http://secunia.com/advisories/20566 http://secunia.com/advisories/20692 XForce ISS Database: spamassassin-spamd-command-execution(27008) http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/27008
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