A symlink following vulnerability in the packaging of mailman in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12; openSUSE Leap 15.1 allowed local attackers to escalate their privileges from user wwwrun to root. Additionally arbitrary files could be changed to group mailman. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 mailman versions prior to 2.1.15-9.6.15.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 mailman versions prior to 2.1.17-3.11.1. openSUSE Leap 15.1 mailman version 2.1.29-lp151.2.14 and prior versions.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES11 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2019:14230-1 advisory.

  - A symlink following vulnerability in the packaging of mailman in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, SUSE     Linux Enterprise Server 12; openSUSE Leap 15.1 allowed local attackers to escalate their privileges from     user wwwrun to root. Additionally arbitrary files could be changed to group mailman. This issue affects:
    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 mailman versions prior to 2.1.15-9.6.15.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12     mailman versions prior to 2.1.17-3.11.1. openSUSE Leap 15.1 mailman version 2.1.29-lp151.2.14 and prior     versions. (CVE-2019-3693)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This update for mailman fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2019-3693: Fixed a privilege escalation during     package install. Could be exploited by a local users who     is members of the the mailman group. (boo#1154328)

This update for mailman fixes the following issues :

CVE-2019-3693: Fixed a local privilege escalation from wwwrun to root (bsc#1154328).

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
150650	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : mailman (SUSE-SU-2019:14230-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
133347	openSUSE Security Update : mailman (openSUSE-2020-148)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
131387	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : mailman (SUSE-SU-2019:3076-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

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