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openSUSE Security Update : mailman (openSUSE-2019-556)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 123238

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for mailman fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

 - CVE-2018-13796: Fix a content spoofing vulnerability with invalid list name messages inside the web UI (boo#1101288).

Bug fixes :

 - update to 2.1.29 :

 - Fixed the listinfo and admin overview pages that were broken

- update to 2.1.28 :

 - It is now possible to edit HTML and text templates via the web admin UI in a supported language other than the list's preferred_language.

 - The Japanese translation has been updated

 - The German translation has been updated

 - The Esperanto translation has been updated

 - The BLOCK_SPAMHAUS_LISTED_DBL_SUBSCRIBE feature added in 2.1.27 was not working. This is fixed.

 - Escaping of HTML entities for the web UI is now done more selectively.

Solution

Update the affected mailman packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1101288

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 123238

File Name: openSUSE-2019-556.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/27/2019

Updated: 6/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-13796

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mailman-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mailman-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mailman

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/23/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/12/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-13796