Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.12.2005.59.1
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-59-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'mailman' package(s) announced via the USN-59-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'mailman' package(s) announced via the USN-59-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: Florian Weimer discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in mailman's automatically generated error messages. An attacker could craft an URL containing JavaScript (or other content embedded into HTML) which triggered a mailman error page. When an unsuspecting user followed this URL, the malicious content was copied unmodified to the error page and executed in the context of this page. Juha-Matti Tapio discovered an information disclosure in the private rosters management. Everybody could check whether a specified email address was subscribed to a private mailing list by looking at the error message. This bug was Ubuntu/Debian specific. Important note: There is currently another known vulnerability: when an user subscribes to a mailing list without choosing a password, mailman automatically generates one. However, there are only about 5 million different possible passwords which allows brute force attacks. A different password generation algorithm already exists, but is currently too immature to be put into a stable release security update. Therefore it is advisable to always explicitly choose a password for subscriptions, at least until this gets fixed in Warty Warthog. See [link moved to references] for details. Affected Software/OS: 'mailman' package(s) on Ubuntu 4.10. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 4.3 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2004-1177 Bugtraq: 20050110 [USN-59-1] mailman vulnerabilities (Google Search) http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110549296126351&w=2 Debian Security Information: DSA-674 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-674 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:015 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11113 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-235.html http://secunia.com/advisories/13603 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2005:007 (Google Search) http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_07_mailman.html XForce ISS Database: mailman-script-driver-xss(18854) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18854
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