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Mailman Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA21732
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Release Date:
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2006-09-04
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Last Update:
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2006-09-14
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Popularity:
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10,625 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Cross Site Scripting
Spoofing
DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Mailman 2.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-2191
CVE-2006-2941
CVE-2006-3636
CVE-2006-4624
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Mailman, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and phishing attacks, and cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
1) An error in the logging functionality can be exploited to inject a spoofed log message into the error log via a specially crafted URL containing newline characters.
Successful exploitation may trick an administrator into visiting a malicious web site.
2) An error in the processing of malformed headers which does not follow the RFC 2231 standard can be exploited to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
3) Some input isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
Examples:
http://[host]/mailman/admin/mailman/members?findmember=[code]
http://[host]/mailman/edithtml/tests/listinfo.html?html_code=[code]
The vulnerabilities have been reported in versions 2.1.0 through 2.1.8. Prior versions may also be affected.
A format string error has also been reported.
Solution:
Update to version 2.1.9.
http://mailman.sourceforge.net/download.html
Provided and/or discovered by:
1, 3) Moritz Naumann
2) Reported by the vendor.
The vendor also credits Karl Chen for reporting the format string error.
Changelog:
2006-09-13: Updated "Description" and "Solution" sections, and added CVE reference.
2006-09-14: Added additional information provided by Moritz Naumann.
Original Advisory:
Moritz Naumann:
http://moritz-naumann.com/adv/0013/mailmanmulti/0013.txt
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