[CLA-2002:489] Conectiva Linux Security Announcement - mailman
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 18:36:20 -0300
From: [email protected]
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Subject: [CLA-2002:489] Conectiva Linux Security Announcement - mailman
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CONECTIVA LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT
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PACKAGE : mailman
SUMMARY : Cross site scripting vulnerability
DATE : 2002-05-24 18:35:00
ID : CLA-2002:489
RELEVANT
RELEASES : 6.0, 7.0, 8
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DESCRIPTION
Mailman[1] is a mailing list manager.
Barry A. Warsaw announced[2] a new version of mailman that fixes two
cross site scripting vulnerabilities.
According to this announcement, "office" reported such a
vulnerability in the login page, and Tristan Roddis reported one in
the Pipermail index summaries.
Mailman version 2.0.11 addresses both problems.
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all mailman users upgrade their packages.
REFERENCES
1.http://www.list.org
2.http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2002-May/000042.html
DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINKS TO THE UPDATED PACKAGES
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/SRPMS/mailman-2.0.11-2U60_1cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/RPMS/mailman-2.0.11-2U60_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/SRPMS/mailman-2.0.11-2U70_1cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/mailman-2.0.11-2U70_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/SRPMS/mailman-2.0.11-1U8_1cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/mailman-2.0.11-1U8_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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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
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All our advisories and generic update instructions can be viewed at
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?idioma=en
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