mailman vulnerabilities

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-0618   CVE-2018-13796   CVE-2020-12137  

Several security issues were fixed in Mailman.

It was discovered that Mailman incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this to issue execute arbitrary scripts or HTML. (CVE-2018-0618)

29 April 2020

mailman vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Mailman.

Software Description

  • mailman - Web-based mailing list manager (legacy branch)

Details

It was discovered that Mailman incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this to issue execute arbitrary scripts or HTML. (CVE-2018-0618)

It was discovered that Mailman incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to display arbitrary text on a web page. (CVE-2018-13796)

It was discovered that Mailman incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-12137)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
mailman - 1:2.1.26-1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
mailman - 1:2.1.20-1ubuntu0.4

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References