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GLSA-200609-12 : Mailman: Multiple vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22429

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200609-12 (Mailman: Multiple vulnerabilities)

 Mailman fails to properly handle standards-breaking RFC 2231 formatted headers. Furthermore, Moritz Naumann discovered several XSS vulnerabilities and a log file injection.
 Impact :

 An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to cause Mailman to stop processing mails, to inject content into the log file or to execute arbitrary scripts running in the context of the administrator or mailing list user's browser.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Mailman users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-mail/mailman-2.1.9_rc1'

See Also

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2006-3636

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200609-12

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22429

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200609-12.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Published: 9/22/2006

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:mailman, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/19/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/2/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-2941

BID: 19831

GLSA: 200609-12