Debian: DSA-4818-1 Local Escalation Risk In Sympa Software
debian
December 23, 2020
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Sympa, a mailing list manager, which could result in local privilege escalation, denial of service or unauthorized access via the SOAP AP...
Summary
Additionally to mitigate CVE-2020-26880 the sympa_newaliases-wrapper is
no longer installed setuid root by default. A new Debconf question is
introduced to allow setuid installations in setups where it is needed.
For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in
version 6.2.40~dfsg-1+deb10u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your sympa packages.
For the detailed security status of sympa please refer to its security
tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/sympa
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
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Package: sympa
CVE ID: CVE-2020-9369 CVE-2020-10936 CVE-2020-26932 CVE-2020-29668
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