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Debian DSA-4246-1 : mailman - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 111089

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Toshitsugu Yoneyama of Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions, Inc.
discovered that mailman, a web-based mailing list manager, is prone to a cross-site scripting flaw allowing a malicious listowner to inject scripts into the listinfo page, due to not validated input in the host_name field.

Solution

Upgrade the mailman packages.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.1.23-1+deb9u3.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/mailman

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/mailman

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4246

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 111089

File Name: debian_DSA-4246.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/16/2018

Updated: 9/4/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-0618

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mailman

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/15/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-0618

DSA: 4246