Conectiva Linux Advisory: mailman

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CONECTIVA LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 
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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

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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


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