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Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : mailman vulnerabilities (USN-345-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27924

Synopsis

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

Description

Steve Alexander discovered that mailman did not properly handle attachments with special filenames. A remote user could exploit that to stop mail delivery until the server administrator manually cleaned these posts. (CVE-2006-2941)

Various cross-site scripting vulnerabilities have been reported by Barry Warsaw. By using specially crafted email addresses, names, and similar arbitrary user-defined strings, a remote attacker could exploit this to run web script code in the list administrator's web browser. (CVE-2006-3636)

URLs logged to the error log file are now checked for invalid characters. Before, specially crafted URLs could inject arbitrary messages into the log.

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.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/345-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27924

File Name: ubuntu_USN-345-1.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/10/2007

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: 5.5

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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mailman, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/13/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-2941, CVE-2006-3636

BID: 19831

USN: 345-1