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If through a vulnerability assessment, a network security issue is detected for the vulnerability below, applying the appropriate security patches in a timely matter is very important. If you have detected that your system has already been compromised, following CERT's Network Security recovery document will assist with recommended steps for system recovery. Home >> Browse Vulnerability Assessment Database >> Ubuntu Local Security Checks >> USN59-1 : mailman vulnerabilities Vulnerability Assessment Details
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USN59-1 : mailman vulnerabilities |
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mailman vulnerabilities Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment Summary : The remote package "mailman" is missing a security patch. Description : Florian Weimer discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in mailman's automatically generated error messages. A possible hacker could craft an URL containing JavaScript (or other content embedded into HTML) which triggered a mailman error page. When an unsuspecting user followed this URL, the malicious content was copied unmodified to the error page and executed in the context of this page. Juha-Matti Tapio discovered an information disclosure in the private rosters management. Everybody could check whether a specified email address was subscribed to a private mailing list by looking at the error message. This bug was Ubuntu/Debian specific. Important note: There is currently another known vulnerability: when an user subscribes to a mailing list without choosing a password, mailman automatically generates one. However, there are only about 5 million different possible passwords which permits brute force attacks. A different password generation algorithm already exists, but is currently too immature to be [...] Solution : Upgrade to : - mailman-2.1.5-1ubuntu2.2 (Ubuntu 4.10) Network Security Threat Level: High Networks Security ID: Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2005 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2005 Michel Arboi |
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