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Fedora 7 : mailman-2.1.9-5.3 (2008-1356)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 31058

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Tue Feb 5 2008 Tomas Smetana <tsmetana at redhat.com> - 3:2.1.9-5.3

 - patch for CVE-2008-0564; XSS triggerable by list administrator

 - Wed Dec 5 2007 Tomas Smetana <tsmetana at redhat.com>
 - 3:2.1.9-5.2

 - more LC_CTYPE fixes

 - Tue Oct 16 2007 Tomas Smetana <tsmetana at redhat.com>
 - 3:2.1.9-5.1

 - fix #333011 -- withlist crashes with NameError

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected mailman package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431526

http://www.nessus.org/u?278720f8

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 31058

File Name: fedora_2008-1356.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/14/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mailman, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 2/13/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0564

CWE: 79

FEDORA: 2008-1356