USN-586-1: mailman vulnerability

15 March 2008

mailman vulnerability

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Details

Multiple cross-site scripting flaws were discovered in mailman.
A malicious list administrator could exploit this to execute arbitrary
JavaScript, potentially stealing user credentials.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 7.10
Ubuntu 7.04
Ubuntu 6.10
Ubuntu 6.06

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

NOTE: Due to an internal release testing mistake, earlier
published mailman versions 1:2.1.9-4ubuntu1.1 (for Ubuntu
7.04) and 1:2.1.9-8ubuntu0.1 (for Ubuntu 7.10) accidentally
included an incorrect patch and caused a regression, as reported in
https://launchpad.net/bugs/202332

This update includes fixes for the problem. We apologize for the
inconvenience.

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