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Ubuntu 4.10 : mailman vulnerabilities (USN-78-2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 20701

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Ubuntu Security Announce USN-78-1 described a path traversal vulnerability in the 'private' module of Mailman. Unfortunately this updated mailman package was broken so that the 'private' module could not be executed at all any more. The latest package version fixes this.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

For reference, this is the description of the original USN :

An path traversal vulnerability has been discovered in the 'private' module of Mailman. A flawed path sanitation algorithm allowed the construction of URLS to arbitrary files readable by Mailman. This allowed a remote attacker to retrieve configuration and password databases, private list archives, and other files.

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

Solution

Update the affected mailman package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 20701

File Name: ubuntu_USN-78-2.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

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: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mailman

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/17/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0202

USN: 78-2