RHEL 4 / 5 : mailman (RHSA-2011:0307)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 52491

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for mailman.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 / 5 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:0307 advisory.

- mailman: XSS triggerable by list administrator (CVE-2008-0564)

- mailman: Multiple security flaws leading to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks (CVE-2010-3089)

- Mailman: Three XSS flaws due improper escaping of the full name of the member (CVE-2011-0707)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL mailman package based on the guidance in RHSA-2011:0307.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 52491

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-0307.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 3/2/2011

Updated: 4/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-0707

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mailman, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/1/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/4/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0564, CVE-2010-3089, CVE-2011-0707

BID: 27630, 43187, 46464

CWE: 79

RHSA: 2011:0307

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