sympa: CVE-2020-26880

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sympa: CVE-2020-26880

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From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: sympa: CVE-2020-26880

Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 22:09:41 +0200

Source: sympa
Version: 6.2.40~dfsg-7
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/1009
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil@debian.org, Debian Security Team <team@security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for sympa, but this is
mainly for having a tracking bug in Debian.

CVE-2020-26880[0]:
| Sympa through 6.2.57b.2 allows a local privilege escalation from the
| sympa user account to full root access by modifying the sympa.conf
| configuration file (which is owned by sympa) and parsing it through
| the setuid sympa_newaliases-wrapper executable.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-26880
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-26880
[1] https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/1009

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore

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