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Debian DSA-436-1 : mailman - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 15273

Synopsis

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

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been fixed in the mailman package :

 - CAN-2003-0038 - potential cross-site scripting via certain CGI parameters (not known to be exploitable in this version)
 - CAN-2003-0965 - cross-site scripting in the administrative interface

 - CAN-2003-0991 - certain malformed email commands could cause the mailman process to crash

The cross-site scripting vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to perform administrative operations without authorization, by stealing a session cookie.

Solution

For the current stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.11-1woody7.

We recommend that you update your mailman package.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-436

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 15273

File Name: debian_DSA-436.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0, 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: 2/8/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/24/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0038, CVE-2003-0965, CVE-2003-0991

BID: 9336, 9620

DSA: 436