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Debian DLA-2204-1 : mailman security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 136412

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was an arbitrary content injection vulnerability in the Mailman mailing list manager.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this issue has been fixed in mailman version 1:2.1.18-2+deb8u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your mailman packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected mailman package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00007.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 136412

File Name: debian_DLA-2204.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/8/2020

Updated: 3/13/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-12108

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mailman

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/7/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/6/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12108