Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2073-1 mlmmj -- insufficient input sanitising

Date Reported:
20 Jul 2010
Affected Packages:
mlmmj
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-4896.
More information:

Florian Streibelt reported a directory traversal flaw in the way the Mailing List Managing Made Joyful mailing list manager processed users' requests originating from the administrator web interface without enough input validation. A remote, authenticated attacker could use these flaws to write and/or delete arbitrary files.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.15-1.1+lenny1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.17-1.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mlmmj package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mlmmj/mlmmj_1.2.15.orig.tar.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mlmmj/mlmmj_1.2.15-1.1+lenny1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mlmmj/mlmmj_1.2.15-1.1+lenny1.diff.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mlmmj/mlmmj-php-web_1.2.15-1.1+lenny1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mlmmj/mlmmj-php-web-admin_1.2.15-1.1+lenny1_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mlmmj/mlmmj_1.2.15-1.1+lenny1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mlmmj/mlmmj_1.2.15-1.1+lenny1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mlmmj/mlmmj_1.2.15-1.1+lenny1_arm.deb
ARM EABI:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mlmmj/mlmmj_1.2.15-1.1+lenny1_armel.deb
HP Precision:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mlmmj/mlmmj_1.2.15-1.1+lenny1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mlmmj/mlmmj_1.2.15-1.1+lenny1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mlmmj/mlmmj_1.2.15-1.1+lenny1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mlmmj/mlmmj_1.2.15-1.1+lenny1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mlmmj/mlmmj_1.2.15-1.1+lenny1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mlmmj/mlmmj_1.2.15-1.1+lenny1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mlmmj/mlmmj_1.2.15-1.1+lenny1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mlmmj/mlmmj_1.2.15-1.1+lenny1_sparc.deb

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