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CentOS 4 / 5 : mailman (CESA-2011:0307)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 52506

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated mailman package that fixes multiple security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Mailman is a program used to help manage email discussion lists.

Multiple input sanitization flaws were found in the way Mailman displayed usernames of subscribed users on certain pages. If a user who is subscribed to a mailing list were able to trick a victim into visiting one of those pages, they could perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against the victim. (CVE-2011-0707)

Multiple input sanitization flaws were found in the way Mailman displayed mailing list information. A mailing list administrator could use this flaw to conduct a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against victims viewing a list's 'listinfo' page. (CVE-2008-0564, CVE-2010-3089)

Red Hat would like to thank Mark Sapiro for reporting the CVE-2011-0707 and CVE-2010-3089 issues.

Users of mailman should upgrade to this updated package, which contains backported patches to correct these issues.

Solution

Update the affected mailman package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e6fa6101

http://www.nessus.org/u?ff47f7ed

http://www.nessus.org/u?3180c81b

http://www.nessus.org/u?f9b44361

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 52506

File Name: centos_RHSA-2011-0307.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/3/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/14/2011

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