Executive Summary

Summary
Title New mailman packages really fix several vulnerabilities
Informations
Name DSA-674 First vendor Publication 2005-02-10
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2005-02-21
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 3

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Due to an incompatibility between Python 1.5 and 2.1 the last mailman update did not run with Python 1.5 anymore. This problem is corrected with this update. This advisory only updates the packages updated with DSA 674-2. The version in unstable is not affected since it is not supposed to work with Python 1.5 anymore. For completeness below is the original advisory text:

Two security related problems have been discovered in mailman, web-based GNU mailing list manager. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

CAN-2004-1177

Florian Weimer discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in mailman's automatically generated error messages. An attacker could craft an URL containing JavaScript (or other content embedded into HTML) which triggered a mailman error page that would include the malicious code verbatim.

CAN-2005-0202

Several listmasters have noticed unauthorised access to archives of private lists and the list configuration itself, including the users passwords. Administrators are advised to check the webserver logfiles for requests that contain "/...../" and the path to the archives or cofiguration. This does only seem to affect installations running on web servers that do not strip slashes, such as Apache 1.3.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.11-1woody11.

We recommend that you upgrade your mailman package.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-674

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10657
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10657
Title: dm-crypt in Linux kernel 2.6.15 and earlier does not clear a structure before it is freed, which leads to a memory disclosure that could allow local users to obtain sensitive information about a cryptographic key.
Description: Directory traversal vulnerability in the true_path function in private.py for Mailman 2.1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via ".../....///" sequences, which are not properly cleansed by regular expressions that are intended to remove "../" and "./" sequences.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2005-0202
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
CentOS Linux 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 4
Oracle Linux 4
 Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11113
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11113
Title: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the driver script in mailman before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a URL, which is not properly escaped in the resulting error page.
Description: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the driver script in mailman before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a URL, which is not properly escaped in the resulting error page.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2004-1177
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
CentOS Linux 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 4
Oracle Linux 4
 Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 26

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-10-10 Name : SLES9: Security update for mailman
File : nvt/sles9p5016406.nasl
2009-10-10 Name : SLES9: Security update for mailman
File : nvt/sles9p5018754.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200501-29 (mailman)
File : nvt/glsa_200501_29.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200502-11 (mailman)
File : nvt/glsa_200502_11.nasl
2008-09-04 Name : FreeBSD Ports: mailman, ja-mailman
File : nvt/freebsd_mailman.nasl
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 674-1 (mailman)
File : nvt/deb_674_1.nasl
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 674-2 (mailman)
File : nvt/deb_674_2.nasl
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 674-3 (mailman)
File : nvt/deb_674_3.nasl
2005-11-03 Name : Mailman private.py Directory Traversal Vulnerability
File : nvt/mailman_privatepy_directory_traversal.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
14941 Mailman scripts/driver Error Message XSS
13671 Mailman private.py true_path Function Traversal Arbitrary File Access
12855 Mailman Automatic Password Generation Weakness

Mailman contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to determine a user's password. The issue is triggered when a malicious user attempts to brute force an account with the five million possible passwords. It is possible that the flaw may allow unauthorized access resulting in a loss of confidentiality.

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2014-01-10 mailman directory traversal attempt
RuleID : 3131-community - Revision : 10 - Type : SERVER-WEBAPP
2014-01-10 mailman directory traversal attempt
RuleID : 3131 - Revision : 10 - Type : SERVER-WEBAPP

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2012-09-24 Name : The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2005-131.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-09-24 Name : The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2005-132.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-04-04 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-267-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-01-15 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-78-2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-01-15 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-78-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-01-15 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-59-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-09-12 Name : The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2005-242.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-07-13 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_c7ccc33f7d3111d9a9e70001020eed82.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-05-19 Name : The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2005-241.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-03-21 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes a security issue.
File : macosx_SecUpd2005-003.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-03-21 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2005-235.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-02-22 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2005-137.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-02-15 Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing a security update.
File : mandrake_MDKSA-2005-037.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-02-14 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200501-29.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-02-14 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200502-11.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-02-14 Name : The remote host is missing a vendor-supplied security patch
File : suse_SA_2005_007.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-02-10 Name : Authenticated Mailman users can view arbitrary files on the remote host.
File : mailman_privatepy_directory_traversal.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-02-10 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2005-136.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-02-10 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-674.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-01-25 Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing a security update.
File : mandrake_MDKSA-2005-015.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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