RHSA-2018:2916 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: spamassassin security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · October 12, 2018
Updated · June 25, 2026
Topic
An update for spamassassin is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
The SpamAssassin tool provides a way to reduce unsolicited commercial email (spam) from incoming email.
Security Fix(es):
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spamassassin: Certain unclosed tags in crafted emails allow for scan timeouts and result in denial of service (CVE-2017-15705)
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spamassassin: Local user code injection in the meta rule syntax (CVE-2018-11781)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.