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[DSA436] DSA-436-1 mailman

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-436-1 mailman

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Several vulnerabilities have been fixed in the mailman package:
The cross-site scripting vulnerabilities could permit a possible hacker to
perform administrative operations without authorization, by stealing a
session cookie.
For the current stable distribution (woody) these problems have been
fixed in version 2.0.11-1woody7.
For the unstable distribution (sid),
CVE-2003-0965 is fixed in version 2.1.4-1, and
CVE-2003-0038 in version 2.1.1-1.
CVE-2003-0991 will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you update your mailman package.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-436
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 9336, 9620

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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