Debian Security Advisory
DSA-4246-1 mailman -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 15 Jul 2018
- Affected Packages:
- mailman
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-0618.
- More information:
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Toshitsugu Yoneyama of Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions, Inc. discovered that mailman, a web-based mailing list manager, is prone to a cross-site scripting flaw allowing a malicious listowner to inject scripts into the listinfo page, due to not validated input in the host_name field.
For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.1.23-1+deb9u3.
We recommend that you upgrade your mailman packages.
For the detailed security status of mailman please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/mailman