SUSE SLES12 Security Update : mailman (SUSE-SU-2020:1301-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 136794

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for mailman fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

CVE-2020-12108: Fixed a content injection bug (bsc#1171363).

CVE-2020-12137: Fixed a XSS vulnerability caused by MIME type confusion (bsc#1170558).

Non-security issue fixed :

Fixed rights and ownership on /var/lib/mailman/archives (bsc#1167068).

Don't default to invalid hosts for DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST (bsc#682920).

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 OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Crowbar-8-2020-1301=1

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-8-2020-1301=1

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-7-2020-1301=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP3-2020-1301=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2020-1301=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP1-2020-1301=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2020-1301=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2020-1301=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2020-1301=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-BCL-2020-1301=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2020-1301=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2020-1301=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2020-1301=1

SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-5-2020-1301=1

HPE Helion Openstack 8 :

zypper in -t patch HPE-Helion-OpenStack-8-2020-1301=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1167068

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1170558

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1171363

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=682920

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12108/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12137/

http://www.nessus.org/u?eb214068

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 136794

File Name: suse_SU-2020-1301-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/22/2020

Updated: 3/12/2024

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: 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-2020-12137

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-12108

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mailman-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mailman, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mailman-debugsource

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/24/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12108, CVE-2020-12137