Debian Security Advisory

DSA-094-1 mailman -- cross-site scripting hole

Date Reported:
16 Dec 2001
Affected Packages:
mailman
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
No other external database security references currently available.
More information:
Barry A. Warsaw reported several cross-site scripting security holes in Mailman, due to non-existent escaping of CGI variables.

These have been fixed upstream in version 2.0.8, and the relevant patches have been backported to version 1.1-10 in Debian.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/mailman_1.1-10.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/mailman_1.1-10.dsc
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/mailman_1.1.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/mailman_1.1-10_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/mailman_1.1-10_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/mailman_1.1-10_i386.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/mailman_1.1-10_m68k.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/mailman_1.1-10_powerpc.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/mailman_1.1-10_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.