-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONECTIVA LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : mailman SUMMARY : Cross site scripting vulnerability DATE : 2002-09-03 15:55:00 ID : CLA-2002:522 RELEVANT RELEASES : 6.0, 7.0, 8 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION Mailman[1] is a mailing list manager. "office" reported[3] several cross site scripting vulnerabilities in Mailman versions 2.0.11 and older. The authors have been notified and released[2] version 2.0.12 shortly thereafter to address these issues. Using these vulnerabilities a remote attacker could obtain sensitive information, such as authentication cookies or even the administrative password of a specific mailing list, by crafting a special URL with javascript in it and somehow having a list administrator click on it. This announcement updates mailman to version 2.0.13. SOLUTION It is recommended that all mailman administratores upgrade their packages. REFERENCES 1.http://www.list.org/ 2.http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2002-July/000043.html 3.http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-07/0268.html DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINKS TO THE UPDATED PACKAGES ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/SRPMS/mailman-2.0.13-1U60_1cl.src.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/RPMS/mailman-2.0.13-1U60_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/SRPMS/mailman-2.0.13-1U70_1cl.src.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/mailman-2.0.13-1U70_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/SRPMS/mailman-2.0.13-1U80_1cl.src.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/mailman-2.0.13-1U80_1cl.i386.rpm ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS Users of Conectiva Linux version 6.0 or higher may use apt to perform upgrades of RPM packages: - add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list if it is not there yet (you may also use linuxconf to do this): rpm [cncbr] ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br 6.0/conectiva updates (replace 6.0 with the correct version number if you are not running CL6.0) - run: apt-get update - after that, execute: apt-get upgrade Detailed instructions reagarding the use of apt and upgrade examples can be found at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/#apt?idioma=en - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- All packages are signed with Conectiva's GPG key. The key and instructions on how to import it can be found at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/seguranca/chave/?idioma=en Instructions on how to check the signatures of the RPM packages can be found at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/seguranca/politica/?idioma=en - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- All our advisories and generic update instructions can be viewed at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?idioma=en - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- subscribe: conectiva-updates-subscribeat_private unsubscribe: conectiva-updates-unsubscribeat_private -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9dQcP42jd0JmAcZARAuJQAKDbOk0FeDxGiJT5y3Jt6ZL0hOkOvwCePrHG fSudD0TbH6pyOkbf+hiiikg= =T61b -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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