USN-78-1: Mailman vulnerability

10 February 2005

Mailman vulnerability

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Details

An path traversal vulnerability has been discovered in the "private"
module of Mailman. A flawed path sanitation algorithm allowed the
construction of URLS to arbitrary files readable by Mailman. This
allowed a remote attacker to retrieve configuration and password
databases, private list archives, and other files.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 4.10
  • mailman -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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