DSA-3668-1 mailman -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3668-1 mailman -- security update

Date Reported:

15 Sep 2016

Affected Packages:

mailman

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 835970.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-6893.

More information:

It was discovered that there was a CSRF vulnerability in mailman, a web-based mailing list manager, which could allow an attacker to obtain a user's password.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.1.18-2+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.1.23-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mailman packages.