Summary
The remote host is missing an update to mailman
announced via advisory DSA 436-2.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20436-2
Insight
Several vulnerabilities have been fixed in the mailman package:
- CVE-2003-0038 - potential cross-site scripting via certain CGI parameters (not known to be exploitable in this version)
- CVE-2003-0965 - cross-site scripting in the administrative interface
- CVE-2003-0991 - certain malformed email commands could cause the mailman process to crash
The cross-site scripting vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to perform administrative operations without authorization, by stealing a session cookie.
In the process of fixing these vulnerabilities for DSA 436-1, a bug was introduced which could cause mailman to crash on certain malformed messages.
For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.11-1woody8.
The update for the unstable distribution did not share the bug introduced in DSA 436-1.
We recommend that you update your mailman package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2003-0038, CVE-2003-0965, CVE-2003-0991 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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