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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.704818
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4818-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'sympa' package(s) announced via the DSA-4818-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'sympa' package(s) announced via the DSA-4818-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Sympa, a mailing list manager, which could result in local privilege escalation, denial of service or unauthorized access via the SOAP API.

Additionally to mitigate CVE-2020-26880 the sympa_newaliases-wrapper is no longer installed setuid root by default. A new Debconf question is introduced to allow setuid installations in setups where it is needed.

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 6.2.40~
dfsg-1+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your sympa packages.

For the detailed security status of sympa please refer to its security tracker page at: [link moved to references]

Affected Software/OS:
'sympa' package(s) on Debian 10.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.2

CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-10936
Debian Security Information: DSA-4818 (Google Search)
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4818
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3J4NZLGAF4ZYK52XEBQDTBNHLGBEPXXN/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/P3TMQ3CORUOWARALACCBG2SBTIGZ5GY5/
https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases
https://sysdream.com/news/lab/
https://sysdream.com/news/lab/2020-05-25-cve-2020-10936-sympa-privileges-escalation-to-root/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00012.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4442-1/
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-26932
https://bugs.debian.org/971904
https://salsa.debian.org/sympa-team/sympa/-/merge_requests/1
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-29668
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EFZWDEKQFW3EH665OECDWIWM2MI7T53Y/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JICIHAJKKCZXJNIICUDYXGZFQCN6J4U6/
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=976020
https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/blob/6.2.59b.2/NEWS.md
https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/1041
https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/pull/1044
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00026.html
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-9369
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XO4WJYNNHWM7DUKCN4EWYYYPXZSOI7BQ/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A3FUYYLV6URRLAJVWXNJYK2CNOKKNHXC/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6TMVZ5LVYCCIHGEC7RQUMGUE7DJWUXN7/
https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/886
https://sympa-community.github.io/security/2020-001.html
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