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SUSE SLES11 Security Update : mailman (SUSE-SU-2018:1638-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 110473

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for mailman to version 2.1.15 fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2016-6893: Prevent cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the user options page that allowed remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that modify an option (bsc#995352).

 - Various other hardenings against CSFR attacks For details please see https://launchpad.net/mailman/+milestone/2.1.15

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 Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-mailman-13649=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-mailman-13649=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=995352

https://launchpad.net/mailman/+milestone/2.1.15

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6893/

http://www.nessus.org/u?7d882eb8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 110473

File Name: suse_SU-2018-1638-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/12/2018

Updated: 9/23/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous 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: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-6893

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mailman

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/11/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/2/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6893