SUSE SLES12 Security Update : mailman (SUSE-SU-2018:4296-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 119955

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for mailman fixes the following security vulnerabilities :

Fixed a XSS vulnerability and information leak in user options CGI, which could be used to execute arbitrary scripts in the user's browser via specially encoded URLs (bsc#1077358 CVE-2018-5950)

Fixed a directory traversal vulnerability in MTA transports when using the recommended Mailman Transport for Exim (bsc#925502 CVE-2015-2775)

Fixed a XSS vulnerability, which allowed malicious listowners to inject scripts into the listinfo pages (bsc#1099510 CVE-2018-0618)

Fixed arbitrary text injection vulnerability in several mailman CGIs (CVE-2018-13796 bsc#1101288)

Fixed a CSRF vulnerability on the user options page (CVE-2016-6893 bsc#995352)

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.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-7-2018-3062=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2018-3062=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP1-2018-3062=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2018-3062=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-3062=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2018-3062=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2018-3062=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2018-3062=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2018-3062=1

SUSE Enterprise Storage 4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-4-2018-3062=1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 119955

File Name: suse_SU-2018-4296-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/31/2018

Updated: 2/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mailman, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mailman-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mailman-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/28/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/13/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-2775, CVE-2016-6893, CVE-2018-0618, CVE-2018-13796, CVE-2018-5950

BID: 73922

Detections

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