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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.51345
Category:Conectiva Local Security Checks
Title:Conectiva Security Advisory CLA-2004:842
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory CLA-2004:842.

Mailman[1] is a mailing list manager.

This update fixes the following vulnerabilities for Conectiva Linux
9:

1) Cross site scripting vulnerability in the admin CGI script
(CVE-2003-0965)[2]

2) Cross site scripting vulnerability in the create CGI script
(CVE-2003-0992)[3]

3) Remote password retrieval vulnerability (CVE-2004-0412)[4]
As mentioned in the 2.1.5 release announcement[5], previous mailman
versions are vulnerable to a password retrieval attack which would
give the attacker the password an user choose when he/she subscribed
to a mailing list.

For Conectiva Linux 8, the following vulnerability has been fixed:

- CVE-2003-0991[6]: denial of service vulnerability caused by
specific mail messages which would crash mailman.


Solution:
The apt tool can be used to perform RPM package upgrades
by running 'apt-get update' followed by 'apt-get upgrade'

http://www.list.org/
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2003-0965
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2003-0992
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=can-2004-0412
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2004-May/000072.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2003-0991
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=CLA-2004:842
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/index.php?id=a&anuncio=002004

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
6.8

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2003-0965
BugTraq ID: 9336
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9336
Conectiva Linux advisory: CLA-2004:842
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000842
Debian Security Information: DSA-436 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-436
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:013
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2003-December/000066.html
http://www.osvdb.org/3305
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A813
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-020.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/10519
XForce ISS Database: mailman-admin-xss(14121)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/14121
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2003-0992
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A815
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2004-0412
BugTraq ID: 10412
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10412
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109034869927955&w=2
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200406-04.xml
http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/advisory.php?name=MDKSA-2004:051
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2004-May/000072.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/11701
XForce ISS Database: mailman-obtain-password(16256)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16256
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2003-0991
BugTraq ID: 9620
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9620
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:013
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2004-February/000067.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-019.html
SGI Security Advisory: 20040201-01-U
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20040201-01-U.asc
XForce ISS Database: mailman-command-handler-dos(15106)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15106
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